That Was The River by The Waterboys Lyrics

These things you keep you'd better throw them away
You wanna turn your back on your soulless days
Once you were tethered and now you are free
Once you were tethered well now you are free
That was the river this is the sea!

Now if you're feelin' weary if you've been alone too long
Maybe you've been suffering from a few too many
Plans that have gone wrong and you're trying to remember
How fine your life used to be running around banging your drum
Like it's 1973 well that was the river
This is the sea!

Now you say you've got trouble you say you've got pain
You say've got nothing left to believe in nothing to hold on to
Nothing to trust nothing but chains
You've been scouring your conscience raking through your memories
Scouring your conscience raking through your memories
But that was the river this is the sea yeah!

Now I can see you wavering as you try to decide
You've got a war in your head and it's tearing you up inside
You're trying to make sense of something that you just don't see
Trying to make sense now and you know you once held the key
But that was the river and this is the sea!
Yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah!
Now I hear there's a train it's coming on down the line
It's yours if you hurry you've got still enough time
And you don't need no ticket and you don't pay no fee
No you don't need no ticket you don't pay no fee
Because that was the river and this is the sea!

Behold the sea!