[Verse 1]
D/F# D/E D/A
I'm walking down the empty streets we used to know
D D/A Bm
With all those teenage dreams of conquering the world
D/F# G
In between the boats along the quay
D Bm
Same old river staring back at me
D/F# D/A
She's watching everybody come and go
D D/G G
Carried here then washed away given to the flow
[Pre-Chorus]
D A
But every time I go back there
G
I feel I'm winding up nowhere
D A
Why keep asking it to deliver
G
When those days are way down the river
[Chorus]
D A
It's gotta be time that I move on
G
The good old days they are long gone
D G
Let it carry me into the future
A
Out of the background
A
Into the foreground
A D
Giving it all to the river
[Verse 2]
D G D
So meet me somewhere new on some bright afternoon
Bm
When you have shed the skin that holds me back from you
G Bm
Oh everything you want was long ago
G
Carried off and washed away given to the flow
[Pre-Chorus]
A D A
And every time I go back there
G
I feel I'm winding up nowhere
D A
Why keep asking it to deliver
G
When those days are way down the river
[Chorus]
D A
It's gotta be time that I move on
G
The good old days they are long gone
D G
Let it carry me into the future
A
Out of the background
A
Into the foreground
A D
Giving it all to the river
[Bridge]
D
The river rolls on rolls on
Bm
Forever rolls on rolls on
D
The river rolls on rolls on
Bm
Forever rolls on rolls on
[Chorus]
D A
It's gotta be time that I move on
G
The good old days they are long gone
D G
Let it carry me into the future
A
Out of the background
A
Into the foreground
A D
Giving it all to the river
[Outro]
D
The river rolls on rolls on
Bm
Forever rolls on rolls on
D
The river rolls on rolls on
Bm
Forever rolls on rolls on
