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Blue by the Riverside Lyrics by Chance Emerson

The Indigo Tapes

2017

Did you know that the mask you wear looks to real to be fake
And the way you sway could make time stop in his place?
Did you know I was carried away by the smirk you'd have on your face
If I could crack a joke, for once?
Did you know that you broke me up and I fell into the darkest lands
Where the monsters in me would laugh as I tripped and I ran?
Did you know that my words fell out into songs I locked up in my hands
Never to see the sun again?
I can't take back the past
So let's just watch movies again
On my couch, all I knew of your game
Was that you were blue by the riverside
Did you know that the riverside is a place of purity
The kind of place that ends up in fairytales or hollow dreams?
I’ve got an achilles soul but your frigid hands went and ripped it out of me
Perhaps you don't belong, at all
Did you know that it worries me I'll have to see you everyday
Like a pendulum you'll come swinging back my way?
Your childish affairs and your ochre soul but you don't know how to say
What's on your mind
I can't take back the past
So let's just watch movies again
On my couch, all I knew of your game
Was that you were blue by the riverside
I'm just a boy
Scared of things I've never done and never will
So hold me underwater just until
My body is white and lifeless and so still
I'll be fine going under
I can't take back the past
So let's just watch movies again
On my couch, all I knew of your game
Was that you were blue by the riverside
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Chance Emerson

Chance Emerson

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"Blue by the Riverside" appears on "The Indigo Tapes" in 2017.

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