(Intro - Spoken)\nI wish I knew you were gonna pull my heart out,\nDidn’t see the pain coming, didn’t know how much it’d hurt...\n\n(Verse 1)\nI never thought a river could be so wide,\nBetween a man and the little girl he tried to guide.\nYou took her away, like the tide pulls the shore,\nLeft me aching more than I ever felt before.\n\n(Pre-Chorus)\nMy heart hurts deeper than the world can see,\nA silent ache, just you and me.\nNo words can cross, no hands to hold,\nJust a story of love turned cold.\n\n(Chorus)\nThere’s a river between me and my daughter,\nRunning wild with the pain and the laughter.\nI wish I could hold her in my arms tonight,\nBut the current’s strong and it’s holding her tight.\nI hope she knows, I’m still here,\nFighting through every tear.\nThough the distance tears us apart,\nShe’ll forever live inside my heart.\n\n(Verse 2)\nI see her smile in the morning sun,\nHear her laugh when the day is done.\nBut the river flows and the miles grow,\nAnd I’m left with a love she’ll never know.\n\n(Pre-Chorus)\nI wish I knew before you pulled my heart away,\nHow much I’d miss her every single day.\nBut I hold on to hope, like a candle’s light,\nThat one day, the river won’t divide.\n\n(Chorus)\nThere’s a river between me and my daughter,\nRunning wild with the pain and the laughter.\nI wish I could hold her in my arms tonight,\nBut the current’s strong and it’s holding her tight.\nI hope she knows, I’m still here,\nFighting through every tear.\nThough the distance tears us apart,\nShe’ll forever live inside my heart.\n\n(Bridge)\nIf words could build a bridge across the stream,\nI’d cross it every night to live our dream.\nNo river wide enough, no distance too far,\nTo break the bond between a father and his star.\n\n(Chorus)\nThere’s a river between me and my daughter,\nRunning wild with the pain and the laughter.\nI wish I could hold her in my arms tonight,\nBut the current’s strong and it’s holding her tight.\nI hope she knows, I’m still here,\nFighting through every tear.\nThough the distance tears us apart,\nShe’ll forever live inside my heart.\n\n(Outro - Spoken)\nNo matter the distance, no matter the pain,\nMy love flows like that river, constant and untamed.