Name: Big Two-Hearted River
Duration: P00H02M51S
Description: A thematic mash-up of Hemingway, Leeds, the Sun newspaper and crippling boredom.

Big Two-Hearted River

from Happy Birthday EP by Rhode Island

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A thematic mash-up of Hemingway, Leeds, the Sun newspaper and crippling boredom.

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Don't know where I've been today
I dream myself to a nail
I hurt my friend, he says there's
Nothing worse than a smiling child
Who's dreaming all the time

Can't remember a thing today
'cept when you told me it's alright to cry
And I've been crying ever since
A world get away
Oh won't you take me please

From the wind and the rain
Won't you take me away
From the cars and the trains
Won't you take me away
From the websites and chains
Won't you take me away

I've been thinking about dying today
D'you think that heaven knows who I am?
Do I give a damn?
The words come through what to do with our lives
But they only see the sides

I'll be gone in a while today
Oh darling river you are my goal
Swift peaceful soul
Like piano keys through a wall
Serenade
Won't you serenade me sweetly

From the wind and the rain
Won't you take me away
From the cars and the trains
Won't you take me away
From the websites and chains
Won't you take me away

From the wind and the rain
Won't you take me away
From the cars and the trains
Won't you take me away
From the websites and chains
Won't you take me away
Hey yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah

From the mistakes that I made
Won't you take me away
From St-St-Stainburn Parade
Won't you take me away
From Mrs Rebekah Wade
Won't you take me away
And now I'm gone

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from Happy Birthday EP, released January 3, 2005

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