Meet Me By the River's Edge

See I've been here for 28 years

Pounding sweat beneath these wheels

We tattooed lines beneath our skin

No surrender, my Bobby Jean

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We've been burned by all our fears

Just from growing up around here

Our father's factories marked our cars

While Eden burned against the stars



And Sally said, Sally said

I can't take no more regret

It cut us deep, into our souls

Came and climbed into our bed

And Sally said, Sally said

Meet me by the river's edge

We're going to wash these sins away

Or else we won't come back again



You know I had these ballroom dreams

That, as a child, came to me

I was a boy in grandma's arms

A mother's pride and a wounded heart

And I was full with fiery wonder

You wore Audrey Hepburn pearls

You were the only one who understood me then,

and the only one who will



And Sally said, Sally said

I can't take no more regret

It cut us deep, into our souls

Came and climbed into our bed

And Sally said, Sally said

Meet me by the river's edge

We're going to wash these sins away

Or else we won't come back again



And now I drive the 101 on the California night

And I'm amazed at all the stars beneath that old Hollywood sign

As the waltz the ballet on the boulevard to a place we never kept

And I'm not sure if we belong here,

if I ever really left, or If I can go home



And Sally said, Sally said

I can't take no more regret

It cut us deep, into our souls

Came and climbed into our bed

And Sally said, Sally said

Meet me by the river's edge

We're going to wash these sins away

Or else we won't come back again



No retreat, no regrets

Meet me by the river's edge