What makes a river run where it runs
How does it know where to flow
Through the rocks and the narrows
Somehow it finds its way home

What makes a rose want to reach for the sun
How on earth does it break through the snow
Surviving by will
Through the cold winter chill
It still grows

And love flows
love grows
like the river and the rose

What makes a love last for all time
Like a mountain touching the sky
Through the wind and the rain it remains
Like your love and mine

Love flows
Love grows
Like the river and the rose

What makes a river run where it runs
A rose want to reach for the sun
How I ever found you nobody knows
Ask the river and the rose

Music and Lyrics by Jimmy Dunne, Bruce Burch and Barbara Rothstein

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