“Rivers Running From My Eyes”

“Rivers Running From My Eyes” (©CHRIS@ASTI@2013) --- Verse 1 I’ve been waking up in shadows, with the taste of yesterday on my tongue. Every heartbeat feels like thunder from the battles that I lost young. I’ve been stitching up the pieces of the things I couldn’t save, but the memories keep on bleeding— they don’t listen, they don’t fade. I walk the floor at midnight ’cause the silence feels like you. It’s a ghost that pulls me backward into everything I knew. I try to outrun all the heartache, but the pain still follows fast— like a whisper on my shoulder, like a love that didn’t last. --- Pre-Chorus And the truth cuts like a razor, but it’s honest, and it’s mine— I’m a mess, I’m torn to pieces, but I’m standing in the light. --- Chorus So let the rivers run from my eyes tonight, let ’em carry all the hurt I’ve been holding tight. Let the flood pour down till it feels like rain, washing out the echoes of your name. ’Cause my tears are rivers, rushing wild and wide, running through the heart you left behind. There’s a longing in me that I can’t deny, and a hope still burning underneath the rivers from my eyes. --- Verse 2 I’ve been dancing with the heartbreak, trying hard to let it go. But the rhythm keeps on breaking every time I feel the low. I’ve been screaming at the heavens, asking why it fell apart— why the love that felt like thunder left me stranded in the dark. I hold on to every memory, even though it weighs me down. Like a ship that’s pulled to sinking by the storms I couldn’t drown. But somewhere in the wreckage I can feel the smallest spark— a flicker of a promise in the corner of the dark. --- Pre-Chorus And I know the pain is heavy, and the truth is hard to take— but there’s strength inside the aching, and there’s fire in the break. --- Chorus So let the rivers run from my eyes tonight, let ’em carry all the hurt I’ve been holding tight. Let the flood pour down till it feels like rain, washing out the echoes of your name. ’Cause my tears are rivers, rushing wild and wide, running through the heart you left behind. There’s a longing in me that I can’t deny, and a hope still burning underneath the rivers from my eyes. --- Bridge (raw, powerful, emotional) Let it crash— let it break. Let the walls fall from the weight. Let the truth pull me through, even if it rips in two. ’Cause I’ve been torn, I’ve been bruised, I’ve been shattered, I’ve been used— but I’m rising from the pieces like a dawn that cuts the blue. I’m not done, I’m not broken, I’m still burning, still outspoken. And the love that I keep hoping for is pulling me through oceans. --- Chorus (bigger, more passionate) So let the rivers run from my eyes tonight, let ’em carry every shadow you left behind. Let the storm pour down till it rewrites the pain, till the wind blows back my name again. My tears are rivers, wild and undermined, but they carve new places in my life. There’s a longing in me that refuses to die— and a hope still rising underneath the rivers from my eyes. --- Final Chorus (P!nk-style lift, emotional and triumphant) Yeah, let the rivers run, let the rivers flow— they’re the proof I’m healing even though I’m low. Let the flood crash through till it sets me free, till I drown the ghosts of what we used to be. ’Cause these tears are rivers, but they’re cleansing fire— they’re the bridge between my pain and my desire. I’m still searching for a love that feels alive— and I know I’ll find it when the rivers finally run dry. --- Outro (soft, raw) Until that day I’ll keep on breathing, I’ll keep walking through the night. With my rivers running from my eyes, and a hope still burning bright.