Rivers Forget Their Past

2 weeks ago by @alicelimoges

Liner Notes

#palindrome #river #opentuning #folk #acousticguitar

I recently ran into two folks I had met at a dance class a year or so ago. I stopped going and lost touch with these folks I barely knew to begin with. I recently found them again and have struck up a friendship. In my songwriting class I teach last week, I wrote a bit about it. I turned it into a song today. The weekly challenge on FAWM was "palindrome" and I decided to try writing a palindromic chord progression aka it's the same backwards as forwards. I had a lot of fun in my funky tuning (DADF#BC#). Enjoy!

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Lyrics

Rivers forget their past

Let go of the ocean or a mountain pass

Keep flowing, never knowing where they're going

We're sediments of the past

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I met you again

Saw you unfold from strangers to friends

Don't move like I did back then

Could I have this dance along the river bend

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Rivers forget their past

Let go of the ocean or a mountain pass

Keep flowing, never knowing where they're going

We're sediments of the past

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We were strangers

Flitting apart before friendship formed

It was a hollow loss

Expired tears but we only danced once

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Rivers forget their past

Let go of the ocean or a mountain pass

Keep flowing, never knowing where they're going

We're sediments of the past

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Skirts flowing, hearts growing, souls overflowing

Takes a certain kind of soul to dance like that

We exchanged spirits and named

I'm ashamed I never looked back

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Rivers forget their past

Let go of the ocean or a mountain pass

Keep flowing, never knowing where they're going

We're sediments of the past

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