Behind The Song: Ellie Holcomb Shares The Heart Behind Her Song “Canyon”

This week’s featured song story comes to us from Ellie Holcomb. We’re excited to share with you the story behind her song “Canyon.”

So I had the privilege of going to the Grand Canyon for the first time in my life. I will never forget out our guide explaining to us as we’re surrounded by these canyon walls, that the canyon walls tell a story. It’s a story of disaster upon disaster. A flood, a volcano, a mudslide and an earthquake. I just remember being struck that it felt like such a picture of what is happening in our world, in our country and in our hearts right now. We know what it is to be broken, to have our hearts split wide open like a canyon. But there in the middle of all that division, in all of that pain, in all of that brokenness is a river running through to bring refreshment, hope, new life. – Ellie Holcomb

Click on the video below to hear Ellie share the story. Scroll down to listen and read the full lyrics of the song.

From the album Canyon.

“Canyon” Lyrics

The shape of your love is a mystery
The shape of your love is falling rain
There in my deepest ache, you are whispering
That the cracks of my broken heart
will let you in

And there’s a river running through my deepest sorrow
There’s a river running through my deepest pain
There’s a river running through every dream that never came true
Made me a canyon, but there’s a river running through

I’m a canyon, I’m a canyon
But there’s a river running through

The shape of your love is a mystery
Walks through prison doors and hands out all the keys
You move through the dark, you’re holy wind
And the cracks of my broken heart, they breath you in

And there’s a river running through my deepest sorrow
There’s a river running through my deepest pain
There’s a river running through every dream that never came true
Made me a canyon, but there’s a river running through

I’m a canyon, I’m a canyon
But there’s a river running through

I walked into the desert and I found you
You set a table for me
in the presence of my enemies, to share with my enemies
No longer my enemies, no longer my enemies
No longer my enemies

And there’s a river running through our deepest sorrow
There’s a river running through our deepest pain
There’s a river running through every dream that never came true
Made us a canyon/cut a canyon, but there’s a river running through

We’re a canyon, We’re a canyon
But there’s a river running through

We’re a canyon, We’re a canyon
But there’s a river running through