The River Won't Flow-Brooks Ashmanskas/Ty Taylor/Andrea Burns/Jessica Molaskey

[ti:The River Won't Flow] [ar:Brooks Ashmanskas/Ty Taylor/Andrea Burns/Jessica Molaskey] [al:Songs for a New World (Original Off-Broadway Cast Recording)] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]The River Won't Flow - Brooks Ashmanskas/Ty Taylor/Andrea Burns/Jessica Molaskey [00:18.97]I left my home at fifteen [00:20.56] [00:21.99]I wore this very same coat [00:23.71] [00:24.29]My mama said son if you stay on this path [00:27.08]You'll find a river full of money where the rich fish flow [00:29.78] [00:30.97]I said I'll catch me them fish [00:32.79] [00:34.01]And I've searched low and searched high [00:36.17]Well I've seen more water than columbus had seen [00:38.51] [00:39.13]I found me this lake that was greener than green [00:41.85]I said mama I know this is what you mean [00:44.17] [00:44.77]But when I bent for a sip the river ran dry [00:47.33] [00:48.07]The river won't flow for me no no no [00:50.62] [00:53.95]The river won't flow for me no no no no [00:57.49] [01:00.03]I live my life on the up and up [01:02.43]And this is where I was meant to be [01:04.33] [01:05.18]But the river don't [01:06.68]The river won't [01:07.75]Flow for me [01:08.68] [01:14.93]I never had me no house [01:16.56] [01:17.75]I never had me no phone [01:19.42] [01:19.94]I never had much that I didn't have to go [01:22.80]And fight for the right to call it my own [01:25.27] [01:26.54]I don't expect any help [01:28.04] [01:29.29]I don't expect nothing free [01:30.90] [01:31.59]It's not about being any righteous man [01:33.83] [01:34.44]It's not about god and the master plan [01:36.71] [01:37.39]It's not about doing the best I can [01:39.51] [01:40.10]No this corner was where I was born to be [01:43.01]Cause the river won't flow for me no no no [01:45.84] [01:49.15]The river won't flow for me no no no no [01:52.00] [01:55.10]It's just one of the little lessons [01:56.96] [01:57.48]That I learned on my mama's knee [01:59.36] [02:00.66]The river don't [02:01.78]The river won't [02:02.81]Flow for me [02:03.69] [02:06.95]It's all luck [02:07.73] [02:08.36]It's just luck [02:09.08] [02:09.81]There's no way you can rig the game because [02:12.09] [02:12.74]It's all luck [02:13.45] [02:14.23]It's just luck [02:15.32]The sinner and the saint could wind up the same cause [02:18.57]It's all luck [02:19.41] [02:20.09]It's just luck [02:21.13]That decides between the noose and the knife [02:23.89]It's all luck [02:24.88] [02:25.54]It's just luck [02:26.83]When you're begging to switch [02:28.06]With some rich son of a bitch [02:29.23]Who ain't never done nothing to deserve that life [02:32.19] [02:33.55]It seems so easy to run [02:35.03] [02:36.47]Until there's nowhere to go [02:38.67]You never get much for the dues you pay [02:41.07] [02:41.64]You never go far on the easy way [02:43.82] [02:44.62]There isn't much choice [02:46.03]But to kneel and pray [02:47.52]For the river the river the river [02:49.90]To flow [02:50.92] [02:51.45]Flow flow flow flow [02:57.46] [02:58.21]Flow flow [02:59.84] [03:00.52]The river's got to flow [03:01.90] [03:03.20]The river's got to flow [03:04.71] [03:06.17]River river river river [03:10.48] [03:11.83]Flow [03:12.15] [03:14.02]But the river won't flow for you no no no [03:17.08] [03:18.80]The river won't flow for you no no no no [03:22.50] [03:26.09]You gotta live how you gotta live [03:27.94] [03:28.45]You gotta do what you gotta do [03:29.99] [03:31.08]Cause the river don't [03:32.35]The river won't [03:33.46]The river can't [03:34.15] [03:34.73]The river ain't never ever gonna flow for you [03:37.40] [03:39.03]Never gonna flow for you [03:40.30] [03:41.60]Never gonna flow for you [03:42.95] [03:44.19]Never gonna flow for you