These things you keep
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You'd better throw them away
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You wanna turn your back
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On your soulless days
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Once you were tethered
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And now you are free
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Once you were tethered
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Well now you are free
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That was the river
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This is the sea!
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Now if you're feelin' weary
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If you've been alone too long
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Maybe you've been suffering from
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A few too many
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Plans that have gone wrong
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And you're trying to remember
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How fine your life used to be
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Running around banging your drum
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Like it's 1973
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Well that was the river
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This is the sea!
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Wooo!
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Now you say you've got trouble
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You say you've got pain
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You say've got nothing left to believe in
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Nothing to hold on to
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Nothing to trust
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Nothing but chains
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You've been scouring your conscience
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Raking through your memories
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Scouring your conscience
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Raking through your memories
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But that was the river
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This is the sea yeah!
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Now I can see you wavering
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As you try to decide
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You've got a war in your head
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And it's tearing you up inside
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You're trying to make sense
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Of something that you just don't see
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Trying to make sense now
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And you know you once held the key
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But that was the river
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And this is the sea!
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Yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah!
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Now I hear there's a train
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It's coming on down the line
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It's yours if you hurry
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You've got still enough time
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And you don't need no ticket
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And you don't pay no fee
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No you don't need no ticket
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You don't pay no fee
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Because that was the river
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And this is the sea!
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Behold the sea!
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This Is The Sea (Live 1984)
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| The Waterboys |
