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Tales From The Riverbank Lyrics
Bring you a tale from the pastel fields
Where we ran when we were young
This is a tale from the water meadows
Trying to spread some hope into your heart
It’s mixed with happiness - it’s mixed with tears
Both life a death are carried in this stream
That open space you could run for miles
Now you don’t get so many to the pound
True it’s a dream mixed with nostalgia
But it’s a dream that I’ll always hang on to
That I’ll always run to
Won’t you join me by the riverbank
Paradise found down by the still waters
Joined in the race to the rainbow’s end
No fears no worries just a golden country
Woke at sunrise, went home at sunset
Now life is so critical, life is too cynical
We lose our innocence, we lose our very soul
True it’s a dream mixed with nostalgia
But it’s a dream that I’ll always hang on to
That I’ll always run to
True it’s a dream mixed with nostalgia
But it’s a dream that I’ll always hang on to
That I always run to
Won’t you join me by the riverbank
Come on and join me by the riverbank
Where we ran when we were young
This is a tale from the water meadows
Trying to spread some hope into your heart
It’s mixed with happiness - it’s mixed with tears
Both life a death are carried in this stream
That open space you could run for miles
Now you don’t get so many to the pound
But it’s a dream that I’ll always hang on to
That I’ll always run to
Won’t you join me by the riverbank
Joined in the race to the rainbow’s end
No fears no worries just a golden country
Woke at sunrise, went home at sunset
We lose our innocence, we lose our very soul
But it’s a dream that I’ll always hang on to
That I’ll always run to
True it’s a dream mixed with nostalgia
But it’s a dream that I’ll always hang on to
That I always run to
Won’t you join me by the riverbank
Come on and join me by the riverbank
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Another great song, that proves Bruce Foxton had great song writing talent too.
I get the impression that he his lamenting the loss of freedom that comes with youth and how life seems to get more complicated as you leave your youth behind.
Bye the way, Paul wrote this song......
About how life does indeed become more complicated as you grow up, and one's desires to revisit that youth now and again.
A water-meadow is an area of grassland subject to controlled irrigation to increase agricultural productivity. Water-meadows were mainly used in Europe from the 16th to the early 20th centuries.
The line "golden country" is an allusion to Orwell\'s 1984, in which the main character Winston Smith occasionally reminisces about the "golden country" of his childhood.