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Dave: “Life is like a box of chocolates”. No it’s not. It’s like a “river of rust”. This song started when a guy was washing a golf cart in a slanted driveway where I worked and the rust stained the driveway. I told Frank about it because we worked at the same place and I said, “it’s a river of rust”. This stuck with Frank and when he was watching TV it came to him. He used the phrase in reference to life and the marks you leave. Great idea!
Frank: When Dave told me the river of rust story I thought that phrase sounded like something a song could be written about. Your life leaves a permanent trail of everything you say and do. “Like strokes from an artist’s brush, you’re a river of rust.”

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River Of Rust

Ashes to ashes
Dust to dust
Life is like
A river of rust.
Everyone you see
Everyone you touch
You leave your mark
May not seem like much

But when its all said and done
All those marks flow as one
Leaving a trail of memories
Of the life you’ve sailed into the seas.

Think what you will now
And say what you want
It keeps coming back now
A memory to haunt.
Ashes to ashes
Dust to dust
Don’t wanna drown
In a river of rust

And when its all said and done
All those marks flow as one
Leaving a trail of memories
Of the life you sailed into the seas

And when its all said and done
All those marks flow as one
Leaving a trail of memories
Of the life you sailed into the seas

Ashes to ashes
Dust to dust
Life is like
A river of rust,
A river of rust,.
Like strokes from an artist’s brush
Your river of rust.

© 2003 Berglund / Bonafede

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from The Song Is Never Over, released June 25, 2007
Dave Berglund: Guitars, vocals, lyrics
Frank Bonafede: Keyboards, lyrics

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