The River Lyrics

Lyric discussion by SlothSlaysAll 

Cover art for The River lyrics by Atmosphere

referencemark was right about Nothin' But Sunshine. In August I went to an Atmosphere show FINALLY at the Kah-Bang Festival in Bangor, Maine. They never come to Maine so I was more than willing to drive 2 hours to catch Atmos, Print, Ev, and Prof during the vacation tour. It's a festival so at like 1 PM Evidence and Blueprint hop out of their vans and I'm just going crazy talking to them and stuff and got some pics. Met Prof after his performance and got a pic with him as well. Anyway, Slug wasn't around until like 6 and I finally scoped him out from across the entire place and was blessed to talk to him for at least 25 minutes about his music. As much as I hated to ask from hearing him break down performing the river live, (you can find it on youtube), about what the song was about he told me it was about his friend Brian who drowned to death. Now Slug is a sly person in this sort of thing because you don't know if really it's a metaphor or what but after listening after him telling that, all the pieces start to come together. The title "The River" and the LIVE quote "The memory [drips], and the residue fails, I still laugh because the path feels alot like a trail". It's very much important to listen to the live version to understand the message, emotion, and power really. I learned a lot more from him if you would like to know some other fun and not so fun facts.

ON A SIDE NOTE: Another quote "When I smell the air, I can hear a child crying, but when I hear a river, I think the mother is crying"

ON A SIDE NOTE: Another quote "When I smell the air, I can hear a child crying, but when I hear a river, I think the mother is crying"

I would love to know other fun and not so fun facts