The Cool Cool River

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Moves like a fist through traffic  

                              
Anger and no one can heal it  

        
Shoves a little bump into the momentum  

      
It's just a little lump  

                           
But you feel it in the...  

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        In the creases and the shadows  

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        With a rattling deep emo-tion  

F#m     G#m  A G#m F#m G#m A G#m  
    The cool,  cool riv-er  

F#m G#m        A     G#m   F#m G#m A G#m  
    Sweeps the wild, white ocean  


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Yes Boss. The government handshake  

                                   
Yes Boss. The crusher of language  


Yes Boss. Mr. Stillwater,  

                                    
The face at the edge of the banquet  

F#m G#m     A    G#m    F#m  G#m A G#m  
        The cool,    the cool riv-er  

F#m     G#m  A G#mF#m  G#m A G#m  
    The cool,  the cool riv-er  


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        I believe in the  future  

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I may live    in my car  

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My radio tuned to  

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The  voice      of a star  

                                        
Song dogs barking at the break of dawn  

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Lightning pushes the edge of a thunderstorm  

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             And these old hopes and fears  

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      Still at my side  


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Anger and no one can heal it  

                                   
Slides through the metal detector  

                             
Lives like a mole in a motel  

                             
A slide in a slide projector  


F#m     G#m  A G#m F#m  G#m A G#m  
    The cool,       cool riv-er  

F#m G#m   A     G#m        F#m  G#m A G#m  
    Sweeps  the wild, white ocean  

F#m     G#m  A     G#m    F#m  G#m   A     G#m  
    The rage,  the rage of love turns inward  

F#m G#m    A       G#m F#m   G#m A G#m  
        To prayers of devotion  

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    And these prayers are  

                                        
The constant road across the wilderness  

                   
These prayers are  

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 These prayers are the memory                   of God  

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              The memory            of God  


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And I believe in the  future  

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We shall         suffer no more  

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             Maybe not in my lifetime  

D/A       A     D/A A       E9(11)/B   
    But in yours       I feel sure  


                                        
Song dogs barking at the break of dawn  

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Lightning pushes the edge of a thunderstorm  


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             And these streets  

          A   
Quiet as a sleeping army  

          E7/G#             A      D/A            
Send their battered dreams to heaven,     to heaven  

                  E/B     A  
 For the mother's restless son  

                            D/A      
Who is a witness to, who is a warrior  

                     E/BA    
 Who denies his urge to  break and run  


            
Who says: Hard times?  

                  
I'm used to them  

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    The speeding planet burns  

                  
I'm used to that  

                     E/B    A  
 My life's so common it disappears  

            D/A             
And sometimes     even music  

              E/B     A        
 Cannot substitute for   tears  


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