It’s easy to scare your reflection
When you don’t know who you really are
But the water ‘round here hasn’t been too clear
For some years now, the grain’s more like salt

If peace be a river, come drown me
If love be thy will, then I won’t
Be the reason for change when the winds stay the same
And the waves are the ways nothing floats

It’s so easy to confuse your ideals
For the ideas you keep to yourself
But integrity’s lonely and things like love and money
Go deeper than wishing down wells

It’s pieces of me down a river
It’s parts of my heart I’ve never seen
That drift like the wood of a ship that I could have
Repaired had I thought it would sink

So come save me from my indecision
Come pull this damn trigger for me
And don’t be afraid if at the end of the day
That you find that you like what you see

If peace be a river, come drown me
If love be thy will, then I won’t
The heart’s habit of leaving surrounds me with grieving
A feeling I hope doesn’t show

Now come drain me of my inhibitions
Come drink me down ‘til I’m all gone
And savor the last sip, don’t tell me you forget
How we got here and all that we’ve done

It’s pieces of me down a river
It’s parts of my heart I’ve never seen
It’s the circles that we make that put us in bad shape
It’s the deed we know we can’t redeem

If peace be a river, come drown me
If love be thy will, then I won’t
If peace be a river, we’ll die when we get there
Or live forever when we don’t