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By This River

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BbHere we are
BbStuck by this river,
GmYou and I
GmUnderneath a sky that's ever falling 
Ebdown, down, down
GmEver falling down.
Through the day
As if on an ocean
Waiting here,
Always failing to remember why we 
  came, came, came:
I wonder why we came. 
You talk to me
as if from a distance
And I reply
With impressions chosen from another 
  time, time, time,
From another time.

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By This River

by Brian Eno

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Here we are

Stuck by this river,

You and I

Underneath a sky that's ever falling

down, down, down

Ever falling down.

Through the day

As if on an ocean

Waiting here,

Always failing to remember why we

came, came, came:

I wonder why we came.

You talk to me

as if from a distance

And I reply

With impressions chosen from another

time, time, time,

From another time.

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