The mountains are colder now As time slides under the rain And dreams are sown in doubt Memory’s refrain I feel the life I have known The rope is tied But the melody plays on On and on With the rivers of the night On and on With the rivers of the night On and on With the rivers of the night Rivers of the night Oh stay alive Stay the course Try to learn Before the final verse On and on On and on Fight Under the sound and the silence of age Dreams still ripple on memory’s lake And the walls in the fires And the leaves in the fires Remain (With the rivers of the night - rivers of the night) Alone but still alive The fire’s inside The fire’s inside I’m still here And I’ll always be Sometimes the path’s unclear When you’re following the dream