Move the River

It's not the shadow of a lost plane Or the rumble of a railway line It's coming with the strength of an iron horse And without you on its mind Now I've been sitting on the fire escape of the Fairmont looking down There's not a bridge going anywhere That you'd wanna be found Well, it's not a good idea to cross it It may not have another side It may be hot enough to melt your clothes But you won't step out alive You're gonna wanna get your lamp lit Can't nobody see you now It's not as dark as it's gonna get And we're a long way from higher ground There's no way around it There's no way around it However you feel about it We're gonna move the river However you feel about it We're gonna move (we're gonna move) the river The sky's the color of an ashtray It's full of Van Gogh's yellow clouds And those aren't gospel songs you hear Being sung in the crowd Now may a ladder appear in the smoke Through a hole we can climb You see the torches on a battered boat Of a ghost ship without any guide There's no way around it There's no way around it However you feel about it We're gonna move the river Whatever you do about it We're gonna move (we're gonna move) the river We've been sleeping in the backseat On our rooftops and open roads And soon we'll be riding on oil cans Wearing everything that we own If men are all brothers, then brother Why do you treat us this way? We've already been overserved May be sick, but not too much to say There's no way around it There's no way around it However you feel about it We're gonna move the river However you feel about it We're gonna move the river Whatever you do about it We're gonna move the river There's no two ways about it We're gonna move the river