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Riverside by Agnes Obel

Down by the river by the boats
Where everybody goes to be alone
Where you (1)________ see any rising sun
Down to the river we (2)________ run

When by the water we (3)__________ to the dregs
Look at the stones on the river bed
I can (4)________ from your eyes
You've never (5)________ by the riverside

Down by the water the riverbed
Somebody calls you (6)________________ says
Swim with the current and (7)__________ away
Down by the river everyday
(Oh) my God I see
How (8)____________________ is torn
In the river deep
And I don't know why
I go the way
Down by the riverside

When that old river runs pass your eyes
To wash off the dirt on the riverside
Go to the (9)__________ so very near
The river will be your eyes and ears

I walk to the borders on my own
To fall in the water just like a stone
Chilled to the marrow in them bones
Why do I go here all alone
(Oh) my God I see
How everything is torn
In the (10)__________ deep
And I don't know why
I go the way
Down by the riverside
(Oh) my God I see
How everything is torn
In the river deep
And I don't know why
I go the way
Down by the riverside
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Down by the riverside
Down by the riverside

Answers:
(1) wont(2) will(3) drink(4) tell(5) been(6) somebody(7) float(8) everything(9) water(10) river