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Artist: The Decemberists
Canonical path: /the-decemberists/riverswim
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Riverswim
Read Riverswim lyrics by The Decemberists on LyroVerse, with linked artist context and related song paths.
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Riverswim
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River run
And brother row
And the ease between us
The calm below
The rings, these twisted things, cast off in the arms of those long low-aways
The lights, the river's striped, and will we not belong to those long low laze
Surround us
Oh, drown us
A wailing whine, a Wendigo
A waltzing night
Oh bending road
Me, I couldn't sing, caught in some long unseen long it all the sun
Here, we riverswim, wash away the lime that seems to all in all been found
Surround me
Oh, drown me
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