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Riff: Leon Bridges – “River”

Jun 23, 2015

Oh, I wanna come near and give you/Every part of me/But there is blood on my hands/And my lips are unclean

from River lyrics by Leon Bridges

The way he’s talking you’d think he’d be dead and gone by the time he hits 30 like his life were a hard road of trial and tribulation. And maybe it has been, he certainly walks and talks the part, but the heavy gloss reveals the cards; all too scripted to hold any semblance of authenticity.

Riff by Jeff Min

Jeff Min is a Chicago-based writer at SONGLYRICS. His work has appeared in the Chicago Sun-Times, Hi-Fructose, Wax Poetics, SLAM, and HOOP.

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