Lyric discussion by frost37 

Cover art for River In the Road lyrics by Queens of the Stone Age

The "parade drumming" and the "marching in row" makes me fuckin think of an army or something. He wouldn't use this if the song hadn't got something to do with.

The second part has got a nice controverse. "Avert the childrens eyes, Forget left untold Don’t look back to see The blood River in the Road" "Get revenge with my Blood"

Do not let the children know, but get revenge?

Sounds like a dead soldier remmembering his sacrifice and how it was just forgotten, as his body rotting in the vine. After he snaps out of traveling in memories, he asks for vengeance.

"Grab what slips your mind & what your memory won’t hold"

I can be like people forced to run from their homes, leaving their memories. But that's not something you'd think while running from monsters marching in a row... So maybe its the dead soldier trying to make people remmember him.