Name: The Charles River Song
Duration: P00H05M14S
Description: For Boston - my whole heart, my city, my home.

The Charles River Song

from Pieces by Hannah Bates

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For Boston - my whole heart, my city, my home.

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All of my friends will be gone someday
They'll go off to better places
I think I'm stuck here
I'm going to stay
and stick with familiar faces

They say you'll know when you've found a home
But that's when they think that you're leaving
I tell them i've found it - been here all along
And they refuse to believe me

(Chorus)
Maybe in some other lifetime
I was a vagabond girl
And I traveled the country,
and seen all the world,
but I got tired of always leaving
It's like there's an anchor inside me
Something keeps pulling me back
And I'll row my canoe down the river
But the river will take me right back

V2:
Maybe it's not metaphysical
But that's what I choose to believe
My soul's in the harbor
My heart's in the sea
Or maybe I'm just scared to leave

(Chorus)

But the river will take me right back (3x)

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from Pieces, released February 23, 2018
Producer: Cairo Marques-Neto
Mastered by: Jim Anderson
Lyrics by: Hannah Bates
Music by: Hannah Bates, Jamie Doran, Cairo Marques-Neto, Lucas Rich
Vocals: Hannah Bates
Background vocals: Liz Markow, Cairo Marques-Neto
Guitars: Hannah Bates, Cairo Marques-Neto
Keys: Cairo Marques-Neto
Bass: Lucas Rich
Drums: Jamie Doran

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Boston-based singer-songwriter.

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