Em G
I went there again for old time's sake
Em A° C°
Hoping to find the child's toy horse ride that played such a ridiculously tragic tune
B Em A
It was still there - but none of the kids seemed interested in riding on it
Em
And the cafe was still there too
G Em A°
The same press-in plastic letters on the price list and scuffed formica-top tables
C° B Em
I sat as close as possible to the seat where I'd met you that autumn afternoon
A Em G
And then, after what seemed like hours of thinking about it
Em A°
I finally took your face in my hands and I kissed you for the first time
C B Em
And a feeling like electricity flowed through' my whole body
A Em
And I immediately knew I'd entered a completely different world
G Em A° C° B Bm
And all the time, in the background, the sound of that ridiculously heartbreaking child's ride outside
[Interlude]
Bm
[Verse 5]
Bm
At the other end of town the river flows underneath an old railway viaduct
Bm
I went there with you once - except you were somebody else
Bm Bm
And we gazed down at the sludgy brown surface of the water together
Bm Bm
Then a passer-by told us that it used to be a local custom to jump off the viaduct into the river
Bm
When coming home from the pub on a Saturday night
Bm
But that this custom had died out when someone jumped and landed too near to the riverbank
Bm
And had sunk in the mud there and drowned before anyone could reach them
Bm
Maybe he'd just made the whole story up
Bm Bm
You'd never get me to jump off that bridge - no chance - never in a million years
[Instrumental]
Bm A D E G F#
Bm E Bm F#
[Chorus]
Bm
Yeah, a river flows underneath this city
A
I'd like to go there with you now my pretty
D
And follow it on for miles and miles
E
Below other people's ordinary lives
G
Occasionally catching a glimpse of the moon
F#
Through man-hole covers along the route
Bm
Yeah, it's dark sometimes
E
But if you hold my hand
Bm F#
I think I know the way
B
Oh, this is as far as we got last time
A
But if we go just another mile
D
We will surface surrounded by grass and trees
E
And the fly-over that takes the cars to cities
G
Buds that explode at the slightest touch
F#
Nettles that sting - but not too much
Bm
I've never been past this point
E Bm F#
What lies ahead I really could not say
Bm
And I used to live just by the river
A
In a disused factory just off the Wicker
D
And the river flowed by day after day
E
And "one day, I thought, one day I will follow it"
G
That day never came; I moved away and lost track
F#
But tonight I am thinking about making my way back
Bm
I may find you there
E
and float on
Bm F# Bm
Wherever the river may take me-e
[Outro]
Wherever the river may take me
Wherever the river may take us
Wherever it wants us to go
Wherever it wants us to go