Tears of the Earth

I've known rivers ancient and deep

I've seen the ripples in the moonlight, and the secrets they keep

Rushing like a torrent, and carving the land

Picking up trees, the stone and the sand

And the cities of man, grow up from the ground

They grow up so tall, where the river runs down

Paris to London, Boston New Orleans

From the heartland down to dixie, out to the seven seas.

Like the tears of the earth, the rivers they run

Coming down from the mountains in the bright morning sun

Where I clean my soul and get carried away

Let me stay in the valley by the river, one more day.

I remember a place, where mountains divide.

And I stood at the edge of the canyon so wide

I saw so many years, ten thousand before

and it will carve out the land, for ten thousand more

Like the tears of the earth, the rivers they run

Coming down from the mountains in the bright morning sun

Where I clean my soul and get carried away

Let me stay in the valley by the river, one more day.

When the first light of dawn heats up the dew

And the drops shine like diamonds where sunlight shines through

My heart can rest if just for a while

And my tired feet can walk for another mile

Like the tears of the earth, the rivers they run

Coming down from the mountains in the bright morning sun

Where I clean my soul and get carried away

Let me stay in the valley by the river, one more day.