The Will Of The River

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[Verse 1]
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Tore out the map of California
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Crew it on my arm with a ballpoint pen
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Gll the ideas they try and pawn ya
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You can choose your place just like your own patch of skin

[Chorus]
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It’s so hard loving somebody when there’s
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Something inside me
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That pulls my arm, I’ll stay steady just as long
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Gs I’m able to be

[Verse 2]
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Not far from here I was delivered
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Frew up making promises with my fingers crossed
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I’d go and stare into the river
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Learn the art of moving on at anyone’s cost

[Verse 3]
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You’ll understand it from a distance
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G shiny silver line all squiggly and bent
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Chooses the path of least resistance
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Flows under the heaviness of its own intent

[Chorus]
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It’s so hard loving somebody when there’s
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Something inside me
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That pulls my arm, I’ll stay steady just as long
        G
Gs I’m able to be

[Bridge]
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Taunt me, want me, just never try to haunt me
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G restless ghost already wears my body like a glove
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Tend me, bend me, just never try to mend me
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It’s the only way that I know how to love

[Solo]
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[Verse 4]
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My heart it hangs inside me heavy
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It beats and keeps some kind of dark secret time
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It’s quiet when I’m by the levee
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Watch the swirling rainbows of the factory slime

[Verse 5]
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The flattest stones and mammoth bones
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Fossils for children scavenging on the banks
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Like it much better when alone
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When they ask me to play I just say I’m okay, thanks

[Chorus]
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It’s so hard loving somebody when there’s
      F          Am       C
Something inside me
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I’ll stay calm, I’ll stay steady just as long
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Gs I’m able to be