[00:16.45]The snakeskin bracelet on your wrist always came undone
[00:25.94]And it’s strange the little things the mind remembers
[00:30.28]When the big things in love have gone
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[00:45.15]And all motion it seems is a relative thing
[00:49.91]But I can’t tell who’s further from whom
[00:54.92]Sometimes I think I’m flying into the distance
[01:00.03]Sometimes I think it’s you
[01:04.73]And fifteen miles downriver
[01:09.25]Fifteen miles downriver I’ll find the truth
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[01:23.50]Outside the waitress smokes a cigarette
[01:27.96]For a minute she feels free
[01:32.75]But the river pays no mind, indifferent to time
[01:37.54]Puts distance ‘tween me and you
[01:42.45]And I’ve swum against tide
[01:44.39]And been breathless all my life
[01:47.30]Now I’m drifting free
[01:52.13]And it’s time I realised a man can’t fight the tide
[01:57.07]And the moon has more influence than me
[02:02.10]And fifteen miles downriver
[02:06.69]Fifteen miles downriver’s where I wanna be
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[02:20.70]The final conversation is ringing in my ears
[02:25.74]Like the dying chords of a song
[02:30.57]And in a pillar of fire thought I saw your face
[02:35.16]It’s just a lightning storm
[02:40.18]And the lights of these towns fade up and fade down
[02:44.83]And they all look the same from here
[02:49.54]So I’m digging my nails into the palm of my hand
[02:54.37]Not gonna show you my tears
[02:59.27]‘Cause fifteen miles downriver
[03:04.10]Fifteen miles downriver that rain’ll clear
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[03:27.64]The walls of the harbour have fallen behind
[03:32.39]That river proved to short
[03:37.24]And fifteen miles was never that far
[03:41.92]Now a thousand don’t seem much
[03:46.98]So I threw away the map and now I’m sailing by the stars
[03:51.72]But the stars can be liars too
[03:56.40]So I raise my flag and sit back down
[04:01.32]Let the wind blow where it will
[04:06.10]Cause a thousand miles of ocean’s calling me
[04:15.77]Yeah a thousand miles of ocean’s where I’ll find peace
[04:25.07]I’ve crossed a thousand miles of ocean
[04:31.15]Is that a river I see