[Verse one] Look at the palm of your hand, look at the veins in your wrist A map of the stars and the dust that we used to exist There is a fire that sleeps in the center of bone A quiet awareness that no one can ever disown You don’t have to look to the clouds for a sign or a spark It’s burning right inside you, bright in the dark. [Chorus] We are the river that flows from an ancient peak Speaking the languages history taught us to speak Different names for the ocean, different paths through the trees But we’re all just the wind moving over the leaves One shared breath, from the first to the last Carrying the future, and holding the past. [Verse 2] They argue in buildings of stone over what must be true They fight over verses while missing the sky that is blue But truth isn’t found in a rule or a textbook of laws It’s found in the quiet, the wonder, the suddenly awed It’s the warmth of a coffee, the shade of a pine The simple reflection that living is something divine. [Chorus] We are the river that flows from an ancient peak Speaking the languages history taught us to speak Different names for the ocean, different paths through the trees But we’re all just the wind moving over the leaves One shared breath, from the first to the last Carrying the future, and holding the past. [Verse 3 /Bridge] Every creature that crawls, every root in the clay Has a right to the sun, has a part in the play And the only true law that the universe made Is the kindness we give in the sun and the shade Reach out your hand to the stranger you meet And feel the same heartbeat beneath the same street. [Outro] Our forebearers are watching, they live in the strain Of the joy that we find in the midst of the pain We are the wave that is cresting right now To the mountain we bow... One shared breath. Just one shared breath.
