The Rivers

	  		 

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In the afternoon light, riding around 
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Riding my bike all over town 
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They said on TV, that out west right now 
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The rivers can poison us 


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And it was hard to believe, watching it win 
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Kept coming down and kept coming in 
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And finally reached where our great cities stand 
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Now the rivers can poison us 


    Am                        D 
And once more we find out, in case we forgot 
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Just who is strong here and just who is not 
   Am                        D 
As if we could hand her some route that we'd plot 
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And now the rivers can poison us 


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It lifted the trash, it lifted the gold 
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And lifted the lives too weak to hold 
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All swept into some diluvian fold 
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The rivers can poison us 


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And it's like all that we've done, has seeped from the sea 
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It's been, take what you want and leave what you leave 
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We sure have been pigs since Adam and Eve 
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Now the rivers can poison us 


    Am                       D 
And I love the thought of us all being one 
    G                            Em 
But kids in the third grade pack needles and guns 
    Am                     D 
And now we might die if we lie in the sun 
        G          D      G 
And the rivers can poison us 


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Salt of the earth, ebb and the flow 
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All that we have and more than we know 
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Laden with garbage from decades ago 
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The rivers can poison us 


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Well, maybe one day the great salty blue 
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Will swallow us up with all that we knew 
    G                 D         Em 
And things will start over like they always do 
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When the rivers can poison us 
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The rivers can poison us