## Metadata
**Caption:** 90s country ballad, poetic lyrics, acoustic guitar, reflective mood, slow tempo, male vocal
**BPM:** 77
**Duration:** 175.0s
**Key:** A major
**Time Signature:** 4

## Lyrics
[verse]
There's a current running through my chest
Never quite content to let me rest
Some folks anchor down and call it home
I was built to wander, built to roam
Every dream's a channel cut in stone
Carving out a way that's all my own

[chorus]
I'll follow the river wherever it flows
Further than the map or the compass knows
I'd rather ride the current and chase the bend
Than stand on the bank and wonder what could've been
I'll follow the river, follow the tide
Long as I keep moving, I'm still alive inside

[verse]
Some say the water's dangerous and cold
Some say hold on tighter to what you're told
But a river never doubts the way it's made
It just keeps moving, never quite afraid
I've capsized twice and learned to swim again
Every fall just teaches me to bend

[chorus]
I'll follow the river wherever it flows
Further than the map or the compass knows
I'd rather ride the current and chase the bend
Than stand on the bank and wonder what could've been
I'll follow the river, follow the tide
Long as I keep moving, I'm still alive inside

[bridge]
Maybe I won't reach the ocean clean
Maybe the journey's more than the dream
But I'd rather drown in trying too hard
Than never leave the safety of the yard

[chorus]
I'll follow the river wherever it flows
Further than the map or the compass knows
I'd rather ride the current and chase the bend
Than stand on the bank and wonder what could've been
I'll follow the river, follow the tide
Long as I keep moving, I'm still alive inside