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Well they say it starts somewhere up north in the mountains above the fields They moved it around til it flows through the town just a channel of asphalt and steel The city's green but the rainbirds are running and the river is parched And under the street beats the heart of a desert from another time gone by How I wish I had seen you then With your long green grass and your silver bend Oh concrete river All I've ever known Rolling through all my dreams I can see you cool and clean Spirit so strong and deep Won't you carry me SongtexteWon't you carry me home Now the bridges cross every mile or two And the kids jump the barb wire fence Just looking for something to do At night the powerlines crackle and buzz You can hear the sirens moan The water's so slow it moves like blood Through the heart and the soul and the bone How I wish I had seen you then When you ran so free to the valley's end Oh concrete river All I've ever known Rolling through all my dreams I can see you cool and clean Spirit so strong and deep Won't you carry me Won't you carry me home It's just a dry bed most of the time Floods every decade or so Carries a kid off and a couple of cars Raging out of control Oh baby let's go down to the river tonight Bring your radio and we'll dance beneath the mercury lights Cause life is short and hard as a stone And oh the time shoots by I wanna live it as far as my soul can go and wake up before I die Oh concrete river Oh concrete river Well it starts in the mountains above the fields And it rolls through town just a channel of steel Bring your radio we're gonna dance tonight Fall in love beneath the mercury light Sometime I think that life is as hard as that river that runs thorough my backyard (Oh concrete river) Sometime I think that life is as hard as that river that runs through my backyard Aus Songtexte Mania