The River Lyrics - Tom Chaplin

I'm walking down the empty streets we used to know 

With all those teenage dreams of conquering the world 

In between the boats along the quay 

Same old river staring back at me 

She's watching everybody come and go 

Carried here then washed away, given to the flow 

But every time I go back there 

I feel I'm winding up nowhere 

Why keep asking it to deliver 

When those days are down to the river 

It's gotta be time that I move on 

The good old days they are long gone 

Let it carry me into the future 

Out of the background 

Into the foreground 

Giving it all to the river 

So meet me somewhere new on some bright afternoon 

When you have shed the skin that holds me back from you 

Oh everything you want was long ago 

Carried off and washed away, given to the flow 

The river rolls on, rolls on 

Forever rolls on, rolls on 

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