Key: E
Introduction:
Em Am Am7
I bought the paper yesterday
D G G/F#
And I saw the obituary
Em Am Am7
And I read of how you died in pain
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Well I just couldn't understand it
Em Am Am7
If I could of changed that
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Then Lord knows I'd do it now
Em Am Am7
But there is no going back
D G G7
And what's done is done forever
C7+ Bm
But you were always chained and shackled by the dirt
Am B7
Of every small town institution and every big town flirt
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verse 2
Em Am Am7
And I think of what you might have been
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A man of such great promise
Em Am Am7
Oh but you seem to forget the dream
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And the more you saw you hated
Em Am Am7
But let's not talk of the blame
D G G/F#
For what is only natural
Em Am Am7
Like a moth going to a flame
D G G7
You had a dangerous passion
C7+ Bm
But you were always chained and shackled by the dirt
Am B7
Of every small town institution and every big town flirt
Em Am Am7
All the things that you might have been
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But who am I to say?
Em
Still I wonder
Am D G G/F# Em
If it's in the cold earth you prefer to lay
Am D G G/F# Em
If it's in the cold earth you prefer to stay
Am D Em