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Your Love Is Like A River

By Third Day

1,391 views Sep 11, 2026 updated Miracle album Verified editorial review

Song Meaning

Third Day keeps "Your Love Is Like A River" to three comparisons and never adds a fourth: love as a river flowing from the heart, love as a fire lighting the way, love as a rock to stand on. Each image gets its own verse and its own kind of crisis to answer — the river meets a world that "tears us apart" and words that leave scars, the fire meets fear and fading vision, the rock meets a moment when "all my strength and hope is gone."

That pairing of image to specific need is the song's structure; it isn't just piling up metaphors for effect, it's matching a picture to a problem. "It never stops, it rages on" turns the river from a gentle stream into something closer to a flood, insisting endurance rather than calm. By the final verse all three images stack together in one breath — river, fire, rock — as if the song needs all of them at once to describe what one word, love, is actually being asked to hold.

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Your Love Is Like A River

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


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


IT'S NEVER GONNA STOP

IT'S FLOWING FROM MY HEART

IT'S NEVER GONNA FADE

YOUR FIRE WILL LIGHT MY WAY


When all my strength and hope is gone

Your love is like a rock that I am standing on


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

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