The River

　　The River - Tom Chaplin

　　I'm walking down the empty streets we used to know

　　With all those teenage dreams of conquering the world

　　In between the boats along the quay

　　Same old river staring back at me

　　She's watching everybody come and go

　　Carried here then washed away, given to the flow

　　But every time I go back there

　　I feel I'm winding up nowhere

　　Why keep asking it to deliver

　　When those days are down to the river

　　It's gotta be time that I move on

　　The good old days they are long gone

　　Let it carry me into the future

　　Out of the background

　　Into the foreground

　　Giving it all to the river

　　So meet me somewhere new on some bright afternoon

　　When you have shed the skin that holds me back from you

　　Oh everything you want was long ago

　　Carried off and washed away, given to the flow

　　But every time I go back there

　　I feel I'm winding up nowhere

　　Why keep asking it to deliver

　　When those days are down to the river

　　It's gotta be time that I move on

　　The good old days they are long gone

　　Let it carry me into the future

　　Out of the background

　　Into the foreground

　　Giving it all to the river

　　The river rolls on, rolls on

　　Forever rolls on, rolls on

　　The river rolls on, rolls on

　　Forever rolls on, rolls on

　　It's gotta be time that I move on

　　The good old days they are long gone

　　Let it carry me into the future

　　Out of the background

　　Into the foreground

　　Giving it all to the river

　　Giving it all to the river