Hold Back The River

[Intro]
F#m A D A D A E


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


[Chorus]
D  
Hold back the river,

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

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


[Interlude]
F#m A


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


[Chorus]
D  
Hold back the river,

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

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


[Chorus]
D  
Hold back the river,

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

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


[Interlude]
F#m A D A D A E


[Bridge]
A                           
  Lonely water, lonely water,
            D
won't you let us wander
Bm
Let us hold each other
A                           
  Lonely water, lonely water,
            D
won't you let us wander
Bm
Let us hold each other


[Chorus]
D  
Hold back the river,

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

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


[Chorus]
D  
Hold back the river,

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

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


[Outro]
A                           
  Lonely water, lonely water,
            D
won't you let us wander
Bm
Let us hold each other
A                           
  Lonely water, lonely water,
            D
won't you let us wander
Bm
Let us hold each other

F#m A D A D A E