🎵 Follow the River Verse 1 In the first days, I carried a small flame Half made of promise, half made of ash I was born in a house of narrow doors Where love was careful, and hearts kept score I learned the ways before I chose I wore a name before I knew I learned to keep my questions small To bless the wall, to fear the fall Pre-Chorus But the river kept calling my bones With a language older than stones Chorus That was my pilgrimage Out of the guarded gate I followed the river, out of the known And felt my heart open wide I laid down crowns, I laid down swords I walked into the unbounded That was my pilgrimage That was my pilgrimage Verse 2 I learned how to be who I should be Before I knew who I was inside I learned how to hold what wanted wings And call it love, and call it life I crossed the desert of careful eyes I crossed the mountain of should and why I walked out of the temple of walls and fear And let the river open my eyes Pre-Chorus And I found a door with no locks or frame Where nothing was broken and nothing was named Verse 3 I left the stories carved in stone I laid down secrets, laid down names I walked out into open space And felt my breath come back to my bones Chorus That was my pilgrimage Out of the guarded gate I followed the river, out of the known And felt my heart open wide I laid down crowns, I laid down swords I walked into the unbounded That was my pilgrimage That was my pilgrimage Bridge I bless the road that brought me here Even the years that felt unclear Every step was teaching me How to belong more gently I didn’t leave in fire or flame I left like seasons change their names I left the way the light comes through When something truer is coming true Final Chorus That was my pilgrimage Out of the narrow, into the wide I followed the river, out of the known And felt my heart open wide I walk with all my lives in me Nothing hidden, nothing to be That was my pilgrimage That was my pilgrimage Outro No gate to pass. No name to trade. I follow the river. Peace at last.
