Hold Back The River

[Intro]
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[Verse]
Cm        D#        G#       D#
Tried to keep you close to me,
     G#        D#         A#
but life got in between
Cm          D#        G#       D#
Tried to square not being there
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but think that I should have been


[Chorus]
G#  
Hold back the river,

let me look in your eyes
D#
Hold back the river, so I
G#  
Can stop for a minute

and see where you hide
D#
Hold back the river, hold back


[Interlude]
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[Verse]
Cm       D#     G#       D#
Once upon a different life
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We rode our bikes into the sky
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But now we call against the tide
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Those distant days are flashing by


[Chorus]
G#  
Hold back the river,

let me look in your eyes
G#
Hold back the river, so I
D#  
Can stop for a minute

and see where you hide
D#                             A#
Hold back the river, hold back


[Chorus]
G#  
Hold back the river,

let me look in your eyes
G#
Hold back the river, so I
D#  
Can stop for a minute

and see where you hide
D#                             A#
Hold back the river, hold back


[Interlude]
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[Bridge]
D#                           
  Lonely water, lonely water,
            G#
won't you let us wander
Fm
Let us hold each other
D#                           
  Lonely water, lonely water,
            G#
won't you let us wander
Fm
Let us hold each other


[Chorus]
G#  
Hold back the river,

let me look in your eyes
G#
Hold back the river, so I
D#  
Can stop for a minute

and see where you hide
D#                             A#
Hold back the river, hold back


[Chorus]
G#  
Hold back the river,

let me look in your eyes
G#
Hold back the river, so I
D#  
Can stop for a minute

and see where you hide
D#                             A#
Hold back the river, hold back


[Outro]
D#                           
  Lonely water, lonely water,
            G#
won't you let us wander
Fm
Let us hold each other
D#                           
  Lonely water, lonely water,
            G#
won't you let us wander
Fm
Let us hold each other

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