Riverside Hotel

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[Verse 1]
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 Monday morning sidewalk man, sits
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 back to watch the show
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The rebar and the wet cement, 
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transistor radio
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He takes a pull from a paper bag, 
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across the street on an old park 
bench
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Oh, the big machines and rolled 
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blueprints, stir something in his 
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soul

[Verse 2]
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 A memory comes winding through 
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the ruin of his mind
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The hardhats and the heavy boots, 
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the nail gun’s ringing whine
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A jungle with the same sharp 
      C                F
sound, his brothers falling all 
around
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Oh, they built them up, just to 
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tear them down, and left him half 
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alive

[Chorus]
F                         C       
 Someday I’m gonna laugh about it,
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 looking down from heaven’s golden 
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plain
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But for now I found some peace down
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 by the water,
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just to watch a building rise up 
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in the rain

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[Instrumental]
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[Verse 3]
   C                   F     
He waits each day till evening 
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falls, the men all drive away
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The echo of their hammers linger, 
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voices slowly fade
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The lights along the path come on,
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 the scaffolding a skeleton
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All the things he dreamed and 
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then forgot, the promises he made

[Chorus]
F                         C       
 Someday I’m gonna laugh about it,
 F                                 
 looking down from heaven’s golden 
G
plain
        C                          
But for now I found some peace down
        F
 by the water,
        C                G        
just to watch a building rise up 
      Am
in the rain
        C                G        
just to watch a building rise up 
      C
in the rain

[Bridge]
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And the moon shines on the river 
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like a dream, and he smokes a 
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cigarette and falls asleep
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And the wind it wanders slow 
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through empty rooms without their 
walls
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And a silence settles over 
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everything

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[Verse 4]
    C                  F           
And from the ground it rises up, a 
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riverside hotel
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The sidewalk man, he comes to 
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watch near every day until
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The ribbon cut and the curtains 
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hung, the reservations filled and 
gone
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And the owner tells him move 
      F                C
along, go linger somewhere else

[Chorus]
F                         C       
 Someday I’m gonna laugh about it,
 F                                 
 looking down from heaven’s golden 
G
plain
        C                          
But for now I found some peace down
        F
 by the water,
        C                G        
just to watch a building rise up 
      Am
in the rain
        C                G        
just to watch a building rise up 
      C
in the rain