The River

Bruce Springsteen / Bruce Springsteen: The River (1980)

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	I come from down the	valley where	Mister, when you're	young,

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They	bring you up to	do just	like your daddy	done.

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Me and	Mary we met in high school When	she was just	seven	teen.

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We'd	ride out of this valley down to	where the fields were	green.

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Then	I got Mary	pregnant and	man that was all she	wrote,

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And	for my nineteenth	birthday I got a union	card and a wedding	coat.

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	We went down to the courthouse and the	judge put it	all to	rest.

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	No wedding day smiles, no walk down the aisle, No	flowers no wedding	dress.

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I	got a job working con	struction for the	Johnstown Com	pany,

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But	lately there ain't been	much work on ac	count of the econo	my.

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Now	all them things that seemed so important, Well, mister, they	vanished right in	to the	air.

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Now I just	act like I don't remember and Mary	acts like she don't	care.

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But I	remember us riding in my	brothers car, her body	tan and wet down by the	reservoir.

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At	night on them banks I'd	lie awake and pull her	close just to feel each	breath she'd take.

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Now those	memories come back to haunt me, They	haunt me	like a	curse.

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Is a	dream a lie if it don't come true or	is it something	worse?