Ellis Paul - River lyrics

While hollywood sleeps

A young man is dying

On the concrete of a sidewalk downtown.

As his brother weeps

The sirens come calling

And the medics feed him lines on the ground.

Runriverrun...

The director speaks

The cameras are rolling.

A boy steps between the backdrop and the lights.

And he's stealing the scene

With the crew as his witness.

The whole industry will judge him come academy night

Now the tabloids will say what they want to

And the cameras will re-enact his fall.

His legacy speaksbut no one can hear it

'cause his death has made critics of us all.

His legacy speaks

In the canister rooms

In the archives of great studio halls.

And there it will keep like a secret that's whispered between lovers

And those who never knew him at all.