Hold Back The River

[Intro]
Am C F C F C G


[Verse]
Am        C        F       C
Tried to keep you close to me,
     F        C         G
but life got in between
Am          C        F       C
Tried to square not being there
     F         C              G
but think that I should have been


[Chorus]
F  
Hold back the river,

let me look in your eyes
C
Hold back the river, so I
F  
Can stop for a minute

and see where you hide
C
Hold back the river, hold back


[Interlude]
Am C


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


[Chorus]
F  
Hold back the river,

let me look in your eyes
F
Hold back the river, so I
C  
Can stop for a minute

and see where you hide
C                             G
Hold back the river, hold back


[Chorus]
F  
Hold back the river,

let me look in your eyes
F
Hold back the river, so I
C  
Can stop for a minute

and see where you hide
C                             G
Hold back the river, hold back


[Interlude]
Am C F C F C G


[Bridge]
C                           
  Lonely water, lonely water,
            F
won't you let us wander
Dm
Let us hold each other
C                           
  Lonely water, lonely water,
            F
won't you let us wander
Dm
Let us hold each other


[Chorus]
F  
Hold back the river,

let me look in your eyes
F
Hold back the river, so I
C  
Can stop for a minute

and see where you hide
C                             G
Hold back the river, hold back


[Chorus]
F  
Hold back the river,

let me look in your eyes
F
Hold back the river, so I
C  
Can stop for a minute

and see where you hide
C                             G
Hold back the river, hold back


[Outro]
C                           
  Lonely water, lonely water,
            F
won't you let us wander
Dm
Let us hold each other
C                           
  Lonely water, lonely water,
            F
won't you let us wander
Dm
Let us hold each other

Am C F C F C G