Like the River flows Lyrics

I've been doing a lot of reflecting on my life lately

Memories, holding on to all these things, all this negativity

You know, sometimes you just gotta let go

Let it flow away, just like the river flows

Take it away

You are now in peace reality

When I was a kid, I never thought it'd be like this

When did we lose our chance at happiness

Never been a gambler, man, if I had to guess

I wasn't just a simple man like Shinedown

Never had a plan, my support was never found

No father to teach me how to be a man

No mother to teach me how to understand

No religion to help me get around

An adoption for my daughter, I regret it now

I just hope her life turns out better than mine

And that dream, that's the one that keeps me alive

It keeps me afloat as I go down this river of sticks

Reflecting on my life and all the shit I couldn't fix

So I reminisce on this burning bridge

I can never take a victim's stance

I'm not innocent

So I take all that garbage and throw it over the edge

Let it go, watch it flow until it doesn't exist

I flow just like the river flows

No one knows the pain that I hold

You have to let go of my body and soul

And let it go and flow just like the river flows

When my brother died, it was just like another day

I didn't feel a thing

He was just a stranger to me

Another drug addict that OD'd

If our places switched, that could have been me

Just a dead body that nobody missed

We get to where we got by all of our choices

I got two sisters and I wish I was them

I would kill for the happy little family up on that hill

I don't think I'll ever heal

I pinch myself often

This can't be real

I became an alcoholic

Didn't want to feel

Then I felt too much

Got lost in the search for love

And I found myself alone

And I guess it's for the best

Cause I lived a life haunted by dark energies

Full of enemies where it's hard to take another step

I don't think I have very many left

I look north, south, east, and west

I don't see no help

So I let dying things die

I flow just like the river flows

No one knows the pain that I hold

You have to let go of my body and soul

And let it go and flow

Just like the river flows

The only thing left is to figure out what's next

Where do we go from here