Slow River

Intro There is water under everything and it never once stood still Verse Down behind the old mill runs a slow river slow river never in a rush I have watched it since I was a boy in short trousers and it never changed its mind It don't jump and it don't argue it don't try to be the sea It just goes the way that going goes a little further every day Pre Chorus Teach me that and I'll be well teach me that and I'll be well Chorus Slow river carry on slow river carry on Same green water same grey stone never hurried never gone Post Chorus It don't need a better weather it don't need a wider bed It just keeps the one direction and the one direction holds Verse I have known men who ran like rain straight down and finished by the noon Big and bright and loud with living and there's nothing of them now And I have known a quiet woman who did the same small good for fifty years And the town she left behind her is still shaped the way she moved Pre Chorus Teach me that and I'll be well teach me that and I'll be well Chorus Slow river carry on slow river carry on Same green water same grey stone never hurried never gone Post Chorus It don't need a better weather it don't need a wider bed It just keeps the one direction and the one direction holds Verse Stone don't move because it's shouted at stone moves because the water came again That's the only power I believe in now the coming back the coming back Nothing in my life got better in an hour everything I have came slow The bread the roof the woman and the boy all of it arrived like water Bridge So let me be a patient thing let me be a going thing Not the flood and not the drought just the middle of the stream Just the middle of the stream where the light lies down and stays Verse And when the summer takes it thin and the riverbed shows through It don't panic it don't finish it just waits for what it's owed And when the winter comes down heavy and it carries half the hill It don't boast about the carrying it just puts the hill down gently and goes on the way it went Inst Verse There's a bend below the churchyard where it turns and takes its time Every man I've buried up there thought that he would beat the bend None of them beat the bend Break Slow river slow river Chorus Slow river carry on slow river carry on Same green water same grey stone never hurried never gone Post Chorus It don't need a better weather it don't need a wider bed It just keeps the one direction and the one direction holds Post Chorus It don't need a better weather it don't need a wider bed It just keeps the one direction and the one direction holds Outro Carry on carry on slow river carry on Carry on carry on the way you always do Slow river carry on