The River
by Live

Album: Songs From Black Mountain (2006)
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Songfacts®:

  • Live frontman Ed Kowalczyk on the meaning behind this tune from the band's eighth studio album: "It's really a story about a guy who's longing or feels incomplete or sort of on fire and that the woman presence in the chorus is really 'let my love in, ease your pain.' In other words, let's come together and sort of complete each other."
  • This was the album's first single, but it wasn't available for purchase in the US. It failed to chart on the Hot 100 Airplay tally but peaked at #33 on the Adult Top 40 Tracks chart.
  • Songs From Black Mountain was the last album to feature Kowalczyk, who left the band in 2009 to pursue a solo career but rejoined in 2016.
  • The album reunited the band with their Birds Of Pray producer, Jim Wirt.
  • In the music video, directed by Nathan Cox (Disturbed, Linkin Park), the band performs the song in the desert. Kowalczyk walks off alone and somehow falls into a body of water that mysteriously exists amid the barren surroundings. He meets a woman underwater, and they kiss. After he wakes up on dry land, the same woman drives up in a truck and they ride off together.

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