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[Verse]
     D                                                    Dsus4
My father had so much to tell me, things he said I had to know
       G                                                                            D
Don't make my mistakes, there are rules you can't break but I had to find out on my own
                                                        G
Now when I look my own son, I know what my father went thru
                             D
There's only so much you can do
       A7
You're proud when they walk, and scared when they run
                                                  D
That's how it always has been between fathers and sons

[Chorus]
                         G                            D
It's a bridge you can't cross, it's a cross you can't bear
                          A7                                                  D
It's the words you can't say, things you can't change, no matter how much you care
                  G                            D
So you do all you can, but then you gotta let go
                        A7                                            D
You're just part of the flow of a river that runs between fathers and sons

[Intro]
        D
Your mother will try to protect you, and hold you as long as she can
         G                                                                 D
But the higher you climb the more you will see that's something that I understand
                                                                           G
One day you'll look at your own son, there'll be so much that you want to say
                               D
But he'll have to find his own way
        A7
On the road he must take, the course he must run
                                                   D
That's how it always has been between fathers and sons

[Chorus]
                        G                              D
It's a bridge you can't cross, it's a cross you can't bear
                          A7                                                       D
It's the words you can't say, the things you can't change, no matter how much you care
                   G                          D
So you do all you can, but then you gotta let go
                         A7                                            G     A7  D
You're just part of the flow of a river that runs between fathers and sons