Lewis Takes Off His Shirt chords by Owen Pallett

Owen Pallett: Lewis Takes Off His Shirt

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As soon as I got on the horse, I forgot about the math.
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Forgot about the odds against an adolescent standing up to all of Owen's wrath.
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The heat of prairie summer, impossible to take.
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I grab the hem and lift the fabric over my sweet head.
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I know what you're looking for, and
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I'm never gonna give it to you.
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I'm never gonna give it to you.
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I'm never gonna give it to you.
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I'm never gonna give it to you.
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I'm never gonna give it to you.
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I'm never gonna give it to you.

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Government rule established by a dazzling light show.
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A hegemony armoured with a thousand-watt head and seven inches of echo.
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I keep up my velocity, my spurs are in her sides.
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I don't know what I'm doing, and it is the only way.
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Toward the range I'll ride, singing,
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I'm never gonna give it to you.
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I'm never gonna give it to you.
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I'm never gonna give it to you.
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I'm never gonna give it to you.
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I'm never gonna give it to you.
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I'm never gonna give it to you.

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"I am overrated," said the sculptress to the sea.
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"I've been praised for all the ways the marble leaves the man,
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And I was wrong to try and free him."
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And as for me, I am a vector, I am muscle, I am bone.
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The sun upon my shoulders and the horse between my legs,
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This is all I know.

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My senses are bedazzled by the parallax of the road.
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I concentrate to keep contained the overflow.
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My knuckles grip so tightly, my fingers start to bleed.
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If what I have is what you need,
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I'm never gonna give it to you.
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I'm never gonna give it to you.
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I'm never gonna give it to you.
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I'm never gonna give it to you.
F#m
I'm never gonna give it to you.
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I'm never gonna give it to you.