Once I Saw the River Clean

[00:17.23] Once I saw the river clean
[00:21.53] Distant future, wait for me
[00:25.18] I grow pleasing to the eye
[00:29.46] And the cue will cue for me
[00:33.02] Once I saw the river clean
[00:37.28] Soon the clock will strike for me
[00:41.12] Childish mind anticipates
[00:45.36] Grown-up mind consummates
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[00:57.30] I walked with my grandmother
[01:01.27] Down a windblown Chester Road
[01:05.03] With her fifty-two new pence
[01:09.16] For her twenty number-tens
[01:13.37] And my forty-five pence too
[01:17.51] Demand metal guru
[01:21.09] Once with hearts securely stacked
[01:25.03] Then we walked all the way back
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[01:37.32] I walked with my grandmother
[01:41.17] Along the groan of Talbot Road
[01:45.22] In the gardens by the graves
[01:49.23] I can just about behave
[01:53.14] Arrogant and paranoid
[01:57.03] All around, see fathead youth
[02:01.09] Look into their brutal eyes
[02:04.99] But only if you want the truth
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[03:24.39] Once I saw the river clean
[03:29.06] Scratching up the latest scheme
[03:33.06] Time will come but it hasn't yet
[03:36.93] Someone's out to get me
[03:40.74] I walked with my grandmother
[03:44.94] Cornbrook Street, where incomplete
[03:48.82] She would never be again
[03:52.67] A Dublin dancer, free and young
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