Hold back the river (video)

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1. Tried to keep you close to me, but life got in between.

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Tried to square not being there, but think that I should have been.

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Hold back the river, let me look in your eyes, hold back the river so I

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can stop for a minute and see where you hide,

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Hold back the river, hold back. + Am - C

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2. Once upon a different life we rode our bikes into the sky,

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but now we crawl against the tide those distant days are flashing by.

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Hold back the river, let me look in your eyes,

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hold back the river so I can stop for a minute and be by your side,

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hold back the river, hold back.

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Hold back the river, let me look in your eyes,

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hold back the river so I can stop for a minute and see where you are,

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hold back the river, hold back.

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+ Ooh oho .....

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+ Lonely water, lonely water, won't you let us wander,

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let us hold each other ?

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Lonely water, lonely water, won't you let us wander,

Dm

let us hold each other ?

F

Hold back the river, let me look in your eyes,

C

hold back the river so I can stop for a minute and be by your side,

G

hold back the river, hold back.

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Hold back the river, let me look in your eyes,

C

hold back the river so I can stop for a minute and be by your side,

G

hold back the river, ooh !

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+ Lonely water, lonely water, won't you let us wander,

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let us hold each other ?

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Lonely water, lonely water, won't you let us wander,

Dm

let us hold each other ?

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(orig. = capo 5th) (James Bay)