Water don’t sleep where the moon hangs low

It keeps what you say and it lets you go

I walked that path when the night was thin

Barefoot truth and a pocket of sin

Willows leaned like they knew my face

Every step left a mark in place

You can outrun towns and burn old signs

But the ground remembers every line

The creek still knows my name

Calls it soft, calls it plain

I don’t answer, I don’t pray

But it says it all the same

The creek still knows my name

Through the dark, through the rain

I laid it down, I walked away

But the water never changed

Lantern light cuts the fog in two

Shows you things you hoped it wouldn’t do

Stone by stone I learned too late

What you give the land, it takes

I told myself I was passing through

But the mud said son, that ain’t true

The creek still knows my name

Calls it soft, calls it plain

I don’t answer, I don’t pray

But it says it all the same

The creek still knows my name

Through the dark, through the rain

I laid it down, I walked away

But the water never changed

Branches creak like an old refrain

Every echo sounds the same

If there’s judgment, it ain’t a man

It’s the slow cold grip of the land

No stone stays clean

No word stays buried

I come back quiet before the dawn

Where the line was crossed and the line is gone

If there’s peace it ain’t in me

It’s in letting the river be

The creek still knows my name

Calls it low, calls it plain

I don’t answer, I don’t pray

But it says it all the same

The creek still knows my name

Through the dark, through the rain

I laid it down, I walked away

But the water never changed

The creek still knows my name

Every loss, every stain

I can leave, I can stray

But it remembers what I became

Water don’t sleep

And it don’t forget