you cannot stop a river if it has a place to go  you can rediret the water but you can't arrest the flow  you can dam it, but you'll damn yourself  then you'll never know  where the river would have taken you if you had let it  run boy, run boy  the ground feels strange, strange beneth your feet  the ice looks thin, the water looks so deep  there is no right or wrong path, only good or bad  the bad one leaves you looking back at what you could have had,  you better  run boy, run boy  the silence of your planted feet is rising out with danger  run boy, run boy  before the need to move and grow will grow into a stranger  you have to stick your neck out to reach for the top  lay it all on the line, pull out all the stops  jump in with both feet where the wild river runs  you'll prove them all wrong who said it could not be done  stand up, stand up, everything has it's price  the more you achieve, the more you sacrifice  don't you listen when you're told about the "best days in your life"  a useless old expression it means passing time until you die  run boy, run boy  the silence of your planted feet is ringing out with danger  run boy, run boy  before the need to move and grow will grow into a stranger  somebody's watching you somebody's watching you  i'm out here watching you telling you to run  you will never stop this river  it has a place to go!