That Was The River - The Waterboys

These things you keep

You better throw them away

You wanna turn your back

On your careless days

Once you were tethered

Now you are free

Once you were tethered

Now you are free

Well that was the river!

This is the sea

Now if you’re coming undone

Maybe been alone too long

Or just you’ve been suffering from

A few too many

Plans that have gone wrong

And you’re trying to remember

How easy your life used to be

And you’re trying to remember

Well that was the river!

This is the sea

Now you say you’ve got trouble

You say you’ve got pain

You say you’ve got nothing left to believe in

Nothing to hold on to

Nothing but chains

You’re trying to make sense

Of something you just can’t see

You’re trying to make sense

And you know that you once held the key

But that was the river!

This is the sea

Now I can see you wavering

As you’re trying to decide

You’ve got a war in your head

And it’s tearing you up inside

Forget all your schooling

It won’t give you the key

Just forget all your schooling

You won’t find the key

No because that was the river

And this is the sea!

Now I hear there’s a train

It’s coming down the line

It’s yours if you hurry

You’ve got still enough time

And you don’t need no ticket

And you don’t pay no fee

And you don’t need no ticket

You don’t pay no fee

Because that was the river

This is the sea!

That was the river

This is the sea!

That was the river

And this is the sea!

That was the river

The river the river

The river the river

The river the river

The river the river

The river the river

And this is the sea!

This is the sea!

Behold the sea!

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