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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 will run

When by the (2)__________ we (3)__________ to the dregs
Look at the (4)____________ on the river bed
I can tell from your eyes
You've never (5)________ by the riverside

Down by the (6)__________ the riverbed
Somebody (7)__________ you somebody says
Swim with the current and float away
Down by the river everyday
(Oh) my God I see
How everything is torn
In the (8)__________ deep
And I don't (9)________ why
I go the way
Down by the riverside

When (10)________ old (11)__________ (12)________ (13)________ your eyes
To wash off the (14)________ on the riverside
Go to the water so very near
The river will be your eyes and ears

I (15)________ to the (16)______________ on my own
To fall in the (17)__________ just like a stone
Chilled to the marrow in (18)________ bones
Why do I go (19)________ all alone
(Oh) my God I see
How (20)____________________ is torn
In the (21)__________ 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 (22)________ why
I go the way
Down by the riverside
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Down by the riverside
Down by the riverside

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