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Artist: Destroyer
Canonical path: /destroyer/the-river
Related lyric paths: 6
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The River
Read The River lyrics by Destroyer on LyroVerse, with linked artist context and related song paths.
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Curated by Ethan Walker
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The River
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She despises the direction this city's been going in
She rises above it all, cause after all, someone’s got to go free
And someone’s got to follow
The river
Escape from New York
Escape from LA
Take it from me, leave London
You study your Braille
You listen to the hail outside
A comedy of souls
A plot thick with holes
In a windowless room on the outskirts of town
Overlooking the river
You're living, you're breathing
You're living, you're breathing
You try to believe in, but you don't believe
You want them to go, they never leave
Lily-colored livers
The rich man shivers for reasons unknown in the wind
I'm over before I begin, he says
I'm over before I begin to go, he says
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Who performs "The River"?
Destroyer performs "The River", and this lyric page sits inside the Destroyer catalog on LyroVerse.
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Yes. The related section below points to City Of Daughters (Song) and A Light Travels Down The Catwalk with a short reason for opening each page next.
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