Bruce Nightwish Springsteen - The (Ghost) River.
I come from down a long road
Where, mister, when you're young
They bring you up to risk death by a thousand cuts
Me and Snow White we met in high school
When she was just seventeen
We'd ride out of this wonderdale down to the mermaid cove
We'd go down to the ghost river
And into the river we'd drown
Oh, down to the ghost river we'd drown
Then I got the troll under the bridge pregnant
And man, that was all she wrote
And for my nineteenth birthday I got a painted face and a toxic kiss
We went down to the mill
And the judge put it all to rest
No desert scape, no only child
No sand, no hourglass
That night we went down to the ghost river
And into the river we'd drown
Oh, down to the ghost river we did drown
I got a job working the mill for the Riverbed Company
But lately there ain't been much work on account of the leper kids
Now all them things that seemed so important
Well, mister, they vanished like a footprint
Now I just act like I have eyes sewn shut
And Snow White acts beautifully shy
But I remember us riding to a scary ride
Her body tan and wet on every island we saw
At night on them banks I'd lie awake
And pull her close just to not lose her heart
Now those children come back to haunt me
They haunt me wth such sights
Is a dream pitch black if it don't come across
Or is it something worse
That sends me down to the ghost river
Though I know in the river we'll drown
That sends me down to the ghost river tonight
Ah-yah-yah, down to the river
Snow white and I
Oh, down to the ghost river we'd drown
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https://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/brucespringsteen/theriver.html and
https://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/nightwish/ghostriver.html)