riverside hotel chords by Anna tivel

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Verse 1
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monday morning sidewalk man,
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sits back to watch the show
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the rebar and the wet cement,
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transistor radio
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he takes a pull from a paper bag,
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across the street on an old park bench
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the big machines and rolled blueprints,
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stir something in his soul
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Verse 2
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a memory comes winding through
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the ruin of his mind
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the hardhats and the heavy boots,
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the nail gun's ringing whine
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a jungle with the same sharp sound,
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his brothers falling all around
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they built them up, just to tear them down,
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and left him half alive
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Verse 3

someday i'm gonna laugh about it, looking

down from heaven's golden plain

but for now i found some peace down by the water,

just to watch a building rise up in the rain

Interlude 1

Verse 4
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he waits each day til evening comes,
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the men all drive away
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the echo of their hammers linger,
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voices slowly fade
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the lights along the path come on,
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the scaffolding a skeleton
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All the things  he dreamed and then forgot,
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the promises he made
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Verse 5

someday i'm gonna laugh about it,

looking down from heaven's golden plain

but for now i found some peace down by the water,

just to watch a building rise up in the rain

Interlude 2

Verse 6
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and the moon shines on the river like a dream,
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and he smokes a cigarette and falls asleep
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and the wind it wanders slow through empty
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rooms without their walls
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and a silence settles over everything

Interlude 3

Verse 7
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and from the ground it rises up,
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a riverside hotel
the sidewalk man,
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he comes to watch near every day until
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the ribbon cut and the curtains hung,
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the reservations filled and gone
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and the owner tells  him move along,
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go linger somewhere else
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