The levellers - Riverflow

because i couldn't find any videos of this long that wernt live, so i decided to make this, if you want any others doing message me and ill do them

lyrics-

I met you in 82, over a crate of beer and not a few
I cracked a can and so did you, we're going to change the world
The ghetto kings of downside town-the estates and parks of our hallowed ground
Doing anything that we found, and on the river flowed
You'd take a drink from Rev. Jimmy Jones
You'd cross the street on the path the gunman roams
Thrown aside and left to waste, that was you - you knew your place
Wander round, get off your face, and on the river flowed


On and on the river flow - we are the undertow


On and on the river flow - we are the undertow


I don't know how you made it through all the smoke and brew you do
It sure has left its mark on you but you're still with us today
Life goes on and round we go and words can kill these things I know
Sometimes you cut deeply so, but on the river flows
You'd set the table for barber Sweeney Todd
You'd clip the wings of any rising god
But man can't live on hope alone, it can be cut all that is grown
Broke your spirit but not your bones and on the river flows


CHORUS


You're working now - forced to the race
I know it left a bitter taste
But the rising tide had covered your face
Nothing you could do
But I still remember the day you said
That the river flowing through my head
Would take me far or leave me dead
And all you said was true

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[izbi7]

i love this song so much i've told all my friends omg its awsome

[fixationonthedarknes]

i saw them at Christmas time... it was a bloody good gig :D

[bladezgame]

can you do hope street from zeitgeist? pls ty

[fixationonthedarknes]

yeh ill do it when i get home

[fixationonthedarknes]

its uploaded now

[duran9418]

The Levellers were named after a 17th-century (thats 1600`s) group in the English Civil War who were pretty much the first `communists`. In the sense that they wanted no class structure in society, and for everything to be owned in common.

An amazing band with a great ethic. `Levelling The Land` is a great album - check it out.

[301frontline]

LOVE THE LEVELLERS

[thecocacolakid]

Great song thanks, takes me back to my youth!

[PennyLane331]

Saw them live 2 nights ago :) Sooo good!

[joewashere193]

Thanks to mischief brew I found myself here.

[bassman1154]

hehe! John's my neighbor!

[Experiment3265]

@VelvetVoixdeVille if you can point me in the direction of a bar that would play it i would then be inedpted to you sir, alas tamworth has no such bar so naturally i'm thinkin of movin away

[VelvetVoixdeVille]

How could I have forgotten this song existed?! Cheers for uploading - if you could just pass me a beer and point me in the direction of the dancefloor I'd be much indebted to you squire. :)

[unskeptable]

Anyone with nice music playlists add me !!!! :P

[somonelse666]

this song makes me want to get up and dance.

[roberts1966]

I think we can call it the first English Revolution with out falling out too much.

Cheers, Mush

[duran9418]

@roberts1966 The Diggers called themselves The True Levellers, and The Levellers were never a united, disciplined movement. Some Levellers were more radical than others. I personally prefer The Diggers` outlook, but I WAS commenting on a band called `The Levellers` !

Some Levellers denied being communist, whilst the views of others were anarchist.

"The World Turned Upside Down" by Christopher Hill is the best book I`ve found on radical ideas during the English revolution. Thanks for the interest