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Artist: Brian Eno
Canonical path: /brian-eno/the-river
Related lyric paths: 6
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The River
Read The River lyrics by Brian Eno on LyroVerse, with linked artist context and related song paths.
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The River
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So Deep in the Water
Sleep, Dark As the Night
Somehow It Seems It Was All Another Dream
Soon Dissolved in the Light.
Oh, We Were By the Waterline.
Vague, the Song of the Night.
Innocent to All the Peasant Gods With You,
So, We Drink to Be Renewed.
On the Long, Deep River
Where the Moorhens Cry
As the First Sun Quivers in the Open Sky...
Oh, She Came Down the River.
Soon, All the Leaves Were Still.
The Current Was Strong and the River Was So Long.
So, We Drink to Be Renewed.
In the Long Cool Evening,
Where the Peacocks Shiver
And the Boat Starts Down the Silver River Way...
I Remember You Saying,
As Her Deep Eyes Opened,
In the First Light Seeing Her,
"here Is Someone New".
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Brian Eno performs "The River", and this lyric page sits inside the Brian Eno catalog on LyroVerse.
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