Here Comes The River

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The windows turned to fishbowls
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The city to seas
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The cars were drowning underneath
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 your feet
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The children were swimming from the 
top of the trees
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Crowds of umbrellas were staring 
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in mis-belief
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Well Mary kept sewing
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Holding on to her TV
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Even if the water was rising past
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 her knees
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Now here comes the river
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Coming on strong
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And you can't keep your head above
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 these troubled waters
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Bm7
Here comes the river
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Over the flames
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Sometimes you got to burn to keep 
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the storm away
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Sometimes
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Sometimes you got to just

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Nobody told you it was going to be 
this hard
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Something's been building behind 
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your eyes
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You lost what you hold onto
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You're losing control
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There ain't any words in this 
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world that's gonna cure this pain
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Sometimes it's going to fall down
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 on your shoulders
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But you're going to stand through 
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it all
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Here comes the river coming on 
strong
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And you can't keep your head above
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 these troubled waters
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Here comes the river over the flames
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Sometimes you got to burn to keep 
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the storm away
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Sometimes
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Sometimes you're cast adrift

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