Hold Back The River

[Intro]
Em G C G C G D


[Verse]
Em        G        C       G
Tried to keep you close to me,
     C        G         D
but life got in between
Em          G        C       G
Tried to square not being there
     C         G              D
but think that I should have been


[Chorus]
C  
Hold back the river,

let me look in your eyes
G
Hold back the river, so I
C  
Can stop for a minute

and see where you hide
G
Hold back the river, hold back


[Interlude]
Em G


[Verse]
Em       G     C       G
Once upon a different life
     C       G               D
We rode our bikes into the sky
Em        G        C       G
But now we call against the tide
       C       G                D
Those distant days are flashing by


[Chorus]
C  
Hold back the river,

let me look in your eyes
C
Hold back the river, so I
G  
Can stop for a minute

and see where you hide
G                             D
Hold back the river, hold back


[Chorus]
C  
Hold back the river,

let me look in your eyes
C
Hold back the river, so I
G  
Can stop for a minute

and see where you hide
G                             D
Hold back the river, hold back


[Interlude]
Em G C G C G D


[Bridge]
G                           
  Lonely water, lonely water,
            C
won't you let us wander
Am
Let us hold each other
G                           
  Lonely water, lonely water,
            C
won't you let us wander
Am
Let us hold each other


[Chorus]
C  
Hold back the river,

let me look in your eyes
C
Hold back the river, so I
G  
Can stop for a minute

and see where you hide
G                             D
Hold back the river, hold back


[Chorus]
C  
Hold back the river,

let me look in your eyes
C
Hold back the river, so I
G  
Can stop for a minute

and see where you hide
G                             D
Hold back the river, hold back


[Outro]
G                           
  Lonely water, lonely water,
            C
won't you let us wander
Am
Let us hold each other
G                           
  Lonely water, lonely water,
            C
won't you let us wander
Am
Let us hold each other

Em G C G C G D