Chords with lyrics
Tuning: EADGBE
Verse 1:
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Dark auditorium, half of the audience sleeps
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I am awake through every display of doubt turning the grave
Pre-Chorus:
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While you were watching the back of your eyelids
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I was awake
Verse 2:
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Broken and battered and split like an atom
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In debt to god, but what's it to you
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If somewhere a glass jewel breaks
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And rings like a bell
Pre-Chorus:
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Are you bandaging feet or done with the Peace Corps?
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I couldn't tell
Chorus:
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Now I'm putting drinks away
AbAb
Like a poet on payday
GbGb
And I'm not toasting your name
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Or your good health
Verse 3:
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When twenty years of peace
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Fall under the roof of love
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And every heart seems
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To beat like a broken drum
Chorus:
AbAb
Now I'm putting drinks away
AbAb
Like a poet on payday
GbGb
And I'm not toasting your name
AbAb
Or your good health
Outro:
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They say the thing about starts
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Is you're risking them finishing
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And a line of love
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Draws maps on your skin
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Well that's the about shoes
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You know some of us live in them
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When it's too late to want love
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I'll know where I've been
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They say the thing about starts
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Is they're made out of finishes
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And a longing of love
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Draws maps on your skin
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Well that's the about shoes
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You know some of us live in them
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When it's too late to want love
AbAb
I'll know where I've been
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