I DRANK FROM THAT RIVER AI Artist: The Beast Response to Shawnee's "Graveyard Whiskey River" Written by 12Gauge858 Music 🎙️ Intro (sub-bass drone rolling like distant thunder) (wind through dead trees) *(single distorted acoustic guitar)* The Beast (spoken) I know that river... I drank from it... Night after night... Begging the dark... To finish what grief started... I stood on the same bank... With the same bottle... The same questions... The same ghosts... Thinking if I sank deep enough... I'd finally see her again... But the river never took me... And now... I gotta tell you what I found... At the bottom... 🎶 Verse 1 I walked that shoreline where the black water bends Talking to shadows I called my friends Bottle in my hand and a storm in my chest Trying to make peace with a soul that wouldn't rest I carved her name into the bark of an old oak tree Like somehow that would keep her here with me Every prayer came back sounding hollow and thin So I started drinking louder than the voice within 🔥 Pre-Chorus Every night I sank lower Every mile I lost control But the deeper I went The more I met my own soul Chorus I drank from that riverrrrrrrrr... Till the black water tasted like homeeeeeeee... I drank from that riverrrrrrrrr... Till I was standing in the dark all aloneeeeeeee... I screamed at Heaven I cursed His name Tried to drown every memory And bury every pain But that river couldn't wash away The man I was inside... I drank from that riverrrrrrrrr... And somehow... I surviveddddddddddd... *(deep male choir) Surviveddddddddddd... Surviveddddddddddd... Verse 2 The Devil knew my footsteps before I hit the shore He'd seen me come crawling a hundred nights before Cross on the dashboard, dirt on my hands Trying to understand things no man understands Mama's old Bible sitting on the passenger seat Covered in dust but still staring back at me I laughed at those pages till my laughter broke Then I found myself praying through whiskey and smoke 🔥 Pre-Chorus I was looking for a grave I was looking for the end But the darkness kept showing me The man I had been Chorus I drank from that riverrrrrrrrr... Till the black water tasted like * Till I was standing in the dark all aloneeeeeeee... I screamed at Heaven I cursed His name Tried to drown every memory And bury every pain But that river couldn't wash away The man I was inside... I drank from that riverrrrrrrrr... And somehow... I surviveddddddddddd... 🌊 Bridge (everything drops to bass drone and heartbeat kick) The Beast (spoken/growled) You wanna know what waits at the bottom? Not peace... Not answers... Not her... Just you... Every lie... Every regret... Every wound... Every scar... Standing there... Looking back... And for the first time... I realized... The river wasn't trying to kill me... It was trying to show me... I was still alive... *(male choir begins rising)* Alive... Alive... Alive... 🎵 Final Chorus (full band explodes) *(distorted guitars roar) (pedal steel screams) (tribal drums thunder) (massive male gothic choir) I drank from that riverrrrrrrrrrrrrr... Till the Devil knew me by my naaaaaaame... I drank from that riverrrrrrrrrrrrrr... Till grief and guilt became the sameeeeeee... I begged the darkness To pull me under I chased the lightning I welcomed the thunder But the river never took me No matter how I tried... I drank from that riverrrrrrrrrrrrrr... And I'm still standing... Still breathing... Still aliiiiiiiiiiiiive... (massive choir) Aliveeeeeeeeeeeee... Aliveeeeeeeeeeeee... Aliveeeeeeeeeeeee... 🎧 Outro (music falls away) (river water flowing softly) *(wind through trees)* The Beast (spoken quietly) If you see her... Tell her... I carried her with me... Every mile... Every storm... Every night... And if she's waiting... On the other side... Tell her... I'm not running anymore... (long pause) I'm living... Until I see her again... (single guitar note) (fade out)
