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Riverside by Agnes Obel

Down by the river by the boats
Where everybody goes to be alone
Where you wont see any rising sun
Down to the river we will run

When by the water we drink to the dregs
Look at the (1)____________ on the river bed
I can tell from your eyes
You've (2)__________ been by the riverside

Down by the water the riverbed
Somebody calls you (3)________________ says
Swim with the (4)______________ and float away
Down by the river everyday
(Oh) my God I see
How everything is torn
In the river deep
And I don't know why
I go the way
Down by the riverside

When that old (5)__________ runs pass your eyes
To wash off the (6)________ on the riverside
Go to the water so very near
The river (7)________ be your (8)________ and ears

I walk to the borders on my own
To (9)________ in the water just like a stone
Chilled to the marrow in them bones
Why do I go (10)________ all alone
(Oh) my God I see
How everything is torn
In the river deep
And I don't know why
I go the way
Down by the riverside
(Oh) my God I see
How everything is torn
In the river deep
And I don't know why
I go the way
Down by the riverside
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Down by the riverside
Down by the riverside

Answers:
(1) stones(2) never(3) somebody(4) current(5) river(6) dirt(7) will(8) eyes(9) fall(10) here