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Learning To Live tab by Dream Theater

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Dream Theater: Learning to Live

Transcribed by ?dam Bodnar (ytsejam@falcon.sch.bme.hu), from the official
guitar scores.

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Guitars tacet

Verse 1:
There was no time for pain
No energy for anger
The sightlessness of hatred slips away
Walking through winter streets alone
He stops and takes a breath
With confidence and self-control

Verse 2:
                             I look at the world and see no understanding___

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            I'm waiting to find some sense of strength
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     I'm begging you from the bottom of my heart to show me understanding
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                                           I need to live life    like some
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         people never will so find me   kindness find me beauty find me truth
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                            When temptation brings me to my knees and I
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   lay here drained of strength show me kindness show me beauty show me truth
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              The way your heart sounds makes all the difference It's what de-
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 cides if you'll endure the pain that we all feel. The way your heart beats makes all the
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difference in learning to live
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  Here before me is my soul. I'm learning to live.  w/Fill 1.
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 Fill 1:
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              I won't give up 'til I've no more to give.     No more to give!
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w/Rhy Fig.1(5 times)
Listening to the city
Whispering it's violence
I set out watvhing from above
The '90s bring new questions
New solutions to be found
I fell in love to be let down.

   Once again we dance in the crowd at times   a     step a  -  way    From a
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  common fear that's all spread out I won't listen to what you say
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  Once you touch you stand alone  to    face the bitter fight
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   Once I reached for love and now I reached for life.
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                                          Another chance to live my life
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           Free the sensation in my heart                               To
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   ride the wings of dreams                  In - to changing  hor - i - zons
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      It brings inner peace wiyhin my mind                           As  I'm
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  lifted from where I've split my life               I hear an innocent voice
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                I hear kind - ness beau - ty  and   truth____________________
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 ________________________
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