Carry What the River Knows

Verse 1

The willow bends where the river runs slow

Moss on the roots and the moonlight below

I walked that path with my father's old coat

Counting the stones that the winter had broke

Footprints fading in the silvered grass

A gate that creaks but nobody passes

I called your name and the wind answered back

Soft as a hymn in the falling dusk

Pre-Chorus

Maybe you're still here

Maybe you're still near

In the sway of the branches

In the hum of the air

Chorus

Ghosts of the willow grove

Sing me home

Whisper where the years went wrong

Ghosts of the willow grove

Keep me close

Carry what the river knows

Verse 2

An old church bell through the fog and the rain

Choir of crickets keeping time with my pain

I found your locket in the hollow of oak

Rust on the chain and the picture had broke

I pressed it warm against my shaking palm

The past is heavy but the memory's calm

I knelt right there where the roots intertwine

And gave the locket back to the quiet shrine

Pre-Chorus

Maybe you're still here

Maybe you're still near

In the sway of the branches

In the hum of the air

Chorus

Ghosts of the willow grove

Sing me home

Whisper where the years went wrong

Ghosts of the willow grove

Keep me close

Carry what the river knows

Bridge

And the flute calls through the reeds so thin

And the viola mourns where the night begins

Strings and horns in a woven thread

Singing the names of the ones who fled

The mandolin trembles like a leaf in fall

The harpsichord answers from the manor wall

Every instrument a soul released

Dancing the grove into perfect peace

Chorus

Ghosts of the willow grove

Sing me home

Whisper where the years went wrong

Ghosts of the willow grove

Keep me close

Carry what the river knows

Outro

Willow willow sway

Willow willow sway

Carry what the river knows

Carry what the river knows