Missy Higgins - River

missy higgins the river

verse 1

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she ran until face was numb with cold

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and wore a cotton gown that blazed the night untold

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she ran until her feet refused to hold

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so heavy a heart for someone merely ten years old

pre chorus :

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and when she reached the river

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her knees began to shiver

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her head with pounding voices from home

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behind her was a vision ,

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a painful apparition

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of a darker world that no one should know

chorus :

( Em7 , F#m7 )

Bm7 Gmaj7 Em7 Bm7
somebody’s bed will never be warm again the river will keep this friend

( Em7 , F#m7 )

Bm7 Gmaj7 Em7 Dmaj7
yeah somebody’s bed will never be warm again no never again

verse 2 :

she dived beneath the water’s icy skin ,
hoping the cold would kill the smell of angry gin ,
and her eyes grew wider than they’d ever been
just wishing the numbness to cut deeper with its pins .
and as her body lay there she decided to stay there
till darkness came to pull her away .
and beautifully she sank as up river was the bank
where some bodiless troubles would stay .