Dana Lyons

A Song For River Phoenix

Dana Lyons


Tom: D

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[Verse 1] 
 
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   So many times you said it without...    So many times I stopped and turned away. 
 
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   If I had known that you would soon...   I might have......different way. 
 
 
[Chorus 1] 
 
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   I might have walked with you a...     And on the bus I would have... 
 
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   I might have said to you, come on...  Let's get going home. 
 
 
[Verse 2] 
 
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   But these are wishes of a broken...     The scattered ripples on a frozen sea 
 
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   The empty questions of a would be...    I wonder when you will come back to me 
 
 
[Chorus 2] 
 
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   I wonder if I'll see you in the...    I'll think of you each time the Raven calls 
 
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   Maybe I'll meet you in that...        Hiding from it all. 
 
 
[Verse 3] 
 
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   But now the winter cloud they blow...   Beneath the greyness of the morning sky. 
 
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   The autumn  leaves are melting into...  It seems less often that I wonder why. 
 
 
[Chorus 3] 
 
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   I might have walked with you a...     And on the bus I would have... 
 
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