DON HENLEY - Goodbye To A River lyrics

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(don henley/stan lynch/jai winding/frank simes)<br><br>The rains have come early, they say<br>We're all gonna wash away<br>Well, that's all right with me<br>If heaven's torrent can wash clean<br>The arrogance that lies unseen<br>In the damage done since we have gone<br>Where we ought not to be<br>Goodbye to a river<br>Goodbye to a river<br>So long<br><br>Lakes and levees, dams and locks<br>They put that river in a box<br>It was running wild<br>And men must have control<br>We live our lives in starts and fits<br>We lose our wonder bit by bit<br>We condescend and in the end<br>We lose our very souls<br>Goodbye to a river<br>Goodbye to a river<br>So long<br><br>The dirty water washes down<br>Poisoning the common ground<br>Taking sins of farm and town<br>And bearing them away<br>The captains of industry<br>And their tools on the hill<br>They're killing everything divine<br>What will I tell this child of mine<br><br>(solo)<br>I make a church out of words<br>As the years dull my senses<br>And I try to hold on to the world that I knew<br>I struggle to cross generational fences<br>And the beauty that still remains¡º<br>I can touch it through you<br>Goodbye to a river<br>Goodbye to a river<br>So long<br><br>Goodbye to a river<br>Goodbye to a river<br>So long<br><br>Goodbye to a river<br>Goodbye to a river<br>So long<br><br>Goodbye to a river<br>Goodbye to a river<br>Roll on