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River of No Return

Another Reid collaboration


By K Reid, J Tiven, S Tiven: from the Jeff Healey Band's 1988 album, See the Light, Arista 259441. Can someone out there help us with the rest of the words?


Well you know you’re gonna have to steal it
If you want your cake and eat it too
There is noone left to leave and [ ? ]
And the guy who’s been deceiving you

You got to pay the piper
In the end you will be so much wiser
Got to use your best endeavours
When you’re kissing to be clever

It’s a hard hard lesson
To choke on love
On the river of no return
You been burning all your bridges
Like a child with forty wishes
On the river of no return

Well you got your finger on the trigger
It would help if you was bigger

Now it’s not easy
Ah no, it’s not easy

You’ve done your share of cheating
Now you’re gonna have to take a beating
You’ve been acting like  [  ... ]
Now you’re going to have to suffer

It’s a hard hard lesson
To choke on love
On the river of no return
You been burning all your bridges
Like a child with forty wishes
On the river of no return

It’s a one-way road [ ? ]
As on and on you go
On the river of no return
Swept out on the tide
With no-one on your side
On the river of no return


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