IT MEANS THAT ONLY THE NOTE SHOULD BE PLAYED THAN THE CHORD] INTRO: Abm F# Bbm6 F# C#m As I walk through the streets of my new city B my back feeling much better, I suppose C#m I've reclaimed the use of my imagination B for better or for worse, I've yet to know C#m but I always knew you'd be the one to understand me, Bbm6 I guess that's why it took so long to get things right. Abm Suddenly I'm lost C#m On my street
On my block F# Oh why, Oh why E Oh why haven't you been there for me? Bbm6 Can't you see, I'm losing my mind this time? C#m This time it's for real, I can see C#m* All the trees are turning red F#* The beggars near bodegas grin at me C#m* I think they want something F#* I close my eyes, I tell myself to breathe B and be calm. Be calm. B I know you feel like you are breaking down. E Well I know that it gets so hard sometimes. F# Be calm. C#m I'm scared that everyone is out to get me. Bbm6 "These days before you speak to me you pause." C#m "I always see you looking out your window." Bbm6 "After all, you lost your band, you left your mom." C#m Now every single crack, every pain that I pass, Bbm6 says I should either leave or pick it up Abm But with every single buck I've made C#m I'm saddled with bad luck that came F# the moment I was baptized F#* or when I found out one day I'm gonna die C#m* if only I could find my people or my place in life C#m* then when they come to 'carolin' C#m* so loud, so bright, the theremin Bbm* will lead us to a chorus F# where we'll all rejoice and sing a song that goes: B Oh be calm. Be calm. B I know you feel like you are breaking down. E I know that it gets so hard sometimes, F# Be calm. D#m Take it from me, I've been there a thousand times. Abm You hate your pulse because it thinks you're still alive C#m and e-very--thing's wrong C#m It just gets so hard sometimes F# Be calm. C#m I don't remember much that night, F# Just walking, thinking fondly of you B Thinking how the worst is yet to come B From that street corner came a song E* And I can't remember the man, Bbm The panhandler or his melody. F# The words exchanged had far exceeded any change I'd given thee. B Oh be calm. Be calm. B I know you feel like you are breaking down. E I know that it gets so hard sometimes, F# Be calm. D#m Take it from me, I've been there a thousand times. Abm You hate your pulse because it thinks you're still alive C#m and e-very--thing's wrong C#m It just gets so hard sometimes F# Be calm. Abm Be calm. by: Allan Lauzid
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