Capo
5
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Key: C
Intro:
C Em G
C Em G
C Em G
Verse:
C Em G
I ain’t written a love song in so long as your hair leans down your spine
C Em G
If you don’t mind, being mine for the night or the rest of time
C Em G
let your hips and lips and your fingertips slip against the city streets
C Em G
Sleeping in again, sleeping in while my friends get high on the edge of Westside Highway
C Em G
Verse:
C Em G
Did you ever make it back to Byron Bay?
C
The day that you told me to quit drinking
Em G
And thinking that I was gonna die before thirty, your mom was so worried about
C Em
All those kids in the house tearing picture frames down
G
Our fathers were never around when we were younger
C Em G
Chorus:
N.C. C
So let it go I saw you on the river's edge
G
Dragging on a plastic cigarette
D* Em
With your swim top still wet
C G
So let it go, I'm meeting you out on the coast
D
You hate the smell of real smoke
Em
Why'd you always keep it so cold?
C G D Em
Verse:
C Em G
We're collecting shells out on the bayshore you know I was a shell before
C Em G
Deep in the hands of another my brother told me to leave, but I didn't believe
C Em G
the evil beneath some people you meet out in Queens
C Em G
The way the rain came down the other day in Byron Bay
C Em G
Made me feel so alone, so I just went home, scribbled some poem that I know that she'll never read
C Em G
Chorus:
N.C. C
So let it go I saw you on the river's edge
G
Dragging on a plastic cigarette
D* Em
With your swim top still wet
C G
So let it go, I'm meeting you out on the coast
D
You hate the smell of real smoke
Em
Why'd you always keep it so cold?
C G D Em
C G D Em
Outro:
C G D* Em
Let it go I saw you on the river's edge
C
Let it go I saw you on the river's edge
G
Dragging on a plastic cigarette
D*
With your swim top still wet
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* = strum once
Song History
Published: June 26, 2025
Last Updated: September 10, 2025