The Waterboys — This Is the Sea Live

These things you keep You better throw them away Turn your back On your soulless days Once you were tethered Now you are free Once you were tethered Now you are free That was the river This is the sea If you're feeling weary Maybe been alone too long Or else you've been suffering from A few too many plans that have gone wrong And you're trying to remember How fine your life used to be Running around banging your drum Like it's nineteen-seventy-three Well that was the river This is the sea You say you've got trouble You say you've got pain You say you've got nothin' to hold on to Nothing to trust, nothing but chains You've been scouring your conscience And raking through your memory Scouring your conscience And raking through your memory But that was the river This is the sea I can see you wavering As you try to decide You've got a war in your head And it's tearing you up inside You're trying to make sense Of something that you just don't see You're trying to make sense now And you know you once held the key But that was the river This is the sea Now I hear there's a train It's coming down the line It's yours if you hurry You've got still enough time And you don't need no ticket And you don't pay no fee You don't need a ticket You don't pay a fee That was the river This is the sea