Album: Working Girl Soundtrack (1988)

Charted: 49

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• We're coming to the edge
  Running on the water
  Coming through the fog
  Your sons and daughters
  
  Let the river run
  Let all the dreamers
  Wake the nation
  Come, the New Jerusalem
  
  Silver cities rise
  The morning lights
  The streets that meet them
  And sirens call them on
  With a song
  
  It's asking for the taking
  Trembling, shaking
  Oh, my heart is aching
  
  We're coming to the edge
  Running on the water
  Coming through the fog
  Your sons and daughters
  
  We the great and small
  Stand on a star
  And blaze a trail of desire
  Through the dark'ning dawn
  
  It's asking for the taking
  Come run with me now
  The sky is the color of blue
  You've never even seen
  In the eyes of your lover
  
  Oh, my heart is aching
  We're coming to the edge
  Running on the water
  Coming through the fog
  Your sons and daughters
  
  It's asking for the taking
  Trembling, shaking
  Oh, my heart is aching
  We're coming to the edge
  Running on the water
  Coming through the fog
  Your sons and daughters
  
  Let the river run (let the river run)
  Let all the dreamers (let all the dreamers)
  Wake the nation (wake the nation)
  Come, the New Jerusalem Writer/s: Carly Simon
  Publisher: FOX MUSIC, INC., Universal Music Publishing Group
  Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

Comments: 7

• Ruth from MinnesotaWho was the guy playing guitar in the video?
• Scott Rowland from Cypress, TexasThe lyrics have a context separate from the context of the movie, if I am allowed to read into them my own thoughts, and then insert that interpretation into the film context, It should be fun, and, if you agree, accurate. "Coming out of a fog and to the edge..." returning of righteous to the bosom of Jehovah. "Coming to the edge..." approaching risk with a keen excited state of being in danger. Running on the water-- the messiah walked on water so the rightous are now in possesion of god like powers.
• Barry from Sauquoit, NyOn March 29th 1989, at the 61st Academy Awards ceremonies "Let the River Run" won the Oscar for 'Best Original Song'*...
  * The other two nominees were "Two Hearts" from the movie 'Buster' and "Calling You" from the film 'Bagdad Cafe'.
• Camille from Toronto, OhThis was the first of only two songs to have won an Oscar, Golden Globe, and Grammy while being composed and written, as well as performed, entirely by a single artist (the other being "Streets of Philadelphia" by Bruce Springsteen from Philadelphia).
• Camille from Toronto, OhThe song won the Academy Award for Best Original Song at the 61st Academy Awards in 1989.
• Camille from Toronto, OhHey, how does Carly Simon manage to look so incredibly sexy dressed in a black coat that completely covers her up. You clearly see the Twin Towers behind on the New York lower Manhattan skyline.
• Robin from Bolton, United KingdomOn Carly's website, it says that she found inspiration for the lyrics by first reading the original script, and then by the poems of Walt Whitman. Musically, she wanted to write a hymn to New York with a contemporary jungle beat under it, so as to juxtapose those opposites in a compelling way.

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