Missy Higgins – The River

Verse 1

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She ran until face was numb with cold

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And wore a cotton gown that blazed the night untold

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She ran until her feet refused to hold

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So heavy a heart for someone merely ten years old


Pre chorus:

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And when she reached the river

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Her knees began to shiver

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Her head with pounding voices from home

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Behind her was a vision,

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A painful apparition 

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Of a darker world that no one should know

Chorus:

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Somebody's bed will never be warm again the river will keep this friend

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Yeah somebody's bed will never be warm again no never again

Verse 2:

She dived beneath the water's icy skin, 
Hoping the cold would kill the smell of angry gin, 
And her eyes grew wider than they'd ever been 
Just wishing the numbness to cut deeper with its pins. 
And as her body lay there she decided to stay there 
Till darkness came to pull her away. 
And beautifully she sank as up river was the bank 
Where some bodiless troubles would stay.