Hold Back The River

[Intro]
G#m B E B E B F#


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


[Chorus]
E  
Hold back the river,

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

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


[Interlude]
G#m B


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


[Chorus]
E  
Hold back the river,

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

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


[Chorus]
E  
Hold back the river,

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

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


[Interlude]
G#m B E B E B F#


[Bridge]
B                           
  Lonely water, lonely water,
            E
won't you let us wander
C#m
Let us hold each other
B                           
  Lonely water, lonely water,
            E
won't you let us wander
C#m
Let us hold each other


[Chorus]
E  
Hold back the river,

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

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


[Chorus]
E  
Hold back the river,

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

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


[Outro]
B                           
  Lonely water, lonely water,
            E
won't you let us wander
C#m
Let us hold each other
B                           
  Lonely water, lonely water,
            E
won't you let us wander
C#m
Let us hold each other

G#m B E B E B F#