"The River" is a 1981 song by Bruce Springsteen and is the title track from his fifth studio album The River. It went to the top ten in Denmark, Norway and Sweden and went to number 35 in the United Kingdom and did not chart in the United States.
↑Bohlsen, Christopher (October 6, 2016). "Album Review: Bruce Springsteen - Chapter and Verse". Renowned for Sound. Retrieved December 26, 2018. The following tracks largely experiment with that formula, such as the pared back instrumentation of Badlands, or the sombre soft-rock of The River.