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Bruce Springsteen The Ties That Bind: The River Collection front cover
Track

The Time That Never Was (The River: Outtakes)

Label
Columbia Records
Release Date
4 December 2015
Lyrics

Sometimes I wake up in the morning and it cuts me like a knife
I come face-to-face with my longing for another world, another life
And a time that never was, oh a time that never was

We drove on, fueled not by the future, but by a past we could never touch
Forced to run head-on collisions, till we vanished in the dust
Of a time that never was, the time that never was

So kiss me once more baby, one more kiss you must
Don’t ever let me forget, girl, a time that never was
A time that never was, the times that never was
The time that never was, the time that never was

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