These things you keep you'd better throw them awayYou wanna turn your back on your soulless daysOnce you were tethe red and now you are freeOnce you were tethered well now you are freeThat was the river this is the sea!Now if you're fee lin' weary if you've been alone too longMaybe you've been suffering from a few too manyPlans that have gone wrong and you' re trying to rememberHow fine your life used to be running around banging your drumLike it's 1973 well that was the riverT his is the sea! wooo!Now you say you've got trouble you say you've got painYou say've got nothing left to believe in noth ing to hold on toNothing to trust nothing but chainsYou're scouring your conscience raking through your memoriesScouring y our conscience raking through your memoriesBut that was the river this is the sea yeah!Now I can see you wavering as you try to decideYou've got a war in your head and it's tearing you up insideYou're trying to make sense of something that you just can't seeTrying to make sense now and you know you once held the keyBut that was the river and this is the sea!Yeah y eah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah!Now I hear there's a train it's coming on down the lineIt's yours if you hurry you've got sti ll enough timeAnd you don't need no ticket and you don't pay no feeNo you don't need no ticket you don't pay no feeBecause that was the river and this is the sea!Behold the sea!