This River Is Wild

Album: Sam's Town (2006)
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Songfacts®:

  • Brandon Flowers explained the song's meaning to NME: "I was born in Las Vegas," he said, "but I grew up in a small town in Utah called Nephi, and the whole idea of escaping it and the excitement of that prospect is all captured on this."

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