Lyrics
Verse 1 (Repeat)
Your love is like a river flowing from my heart
Your love is like a river flowing from my heart
When this cruel world tears us apart
Your love is like a river flowing from my heart
When sharpened words have left their scars
Your love is like a river flowing from my heart
And it's overflowing and showing us all
How deep and how wide is Your love
It never stops, it rages on
Your love is like a river flowing from my heart
Verse 2
When I am tired and so afraid
Your love is like a fire that will light my way
When darkness falls and my vision fades
Your love is like a fire that will light my way
And it's always burning and stirring my soul
To know You and love You much more
It never stops or ever fades
Your love is like a fire that will light my way
Chorus
It's never gonna stop
It's flowing from my heart
It's never gonna fade
Your fire will light my way
Verse 3
When all my strength and hope is gone
Your love is like a rock that I am standing on
Outro
Your love is like a river flowing from my heart
Your love is like a fire that will light my way
Your love is like a rock that I am standing on
Your love is like a river flowing from my heart
Video
Meaning & Inspiration
"Love Is Like a River" opens with a single image repeated twice before any verse begins, love flowing like a river from the heart, letting that picture stand on its own before further explanation follows. That early repetition establishes the river as the song's central, returning metaphor for love that keeps moving rather than standing still.
Its verses add two more images in turn, fire that lights the way through darkness and a rock standing firm when strength and hope run out, each addressing a different kind of hardship, confusion, fear, and exhaustion. Naming that love as deep and wide borrows directly from a well-known prayer about love's dimensions, grounding the song's imagery in that specific biblical language.
Rooted in contemporary worship's imagery-driven anthem tradition, the song functions as an extended meditation on love that never stops, fades, or gives way, its closing verses cycling back through river, fire, and rock together as three complementary pictures of the same unchanging, sustaining love.
Related Scripture
- Ephesians 3:17-18 Prays to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is Christ's love, directly echoed in the song's description of love as deep and wide.
- Deuteronomy 32:4 Describes God as the Rock, echoed in the song's image of love as a rock to stand on.