Key: G
Introduction:
G/B F#/A E/G D/F# C/E
G/B F#/A E/G D/F# C/G
G/B F#/A E/G D/F# C/E
Staring at the pictures of the runaways on the wall
G/B F#/A E/G D/F# C/G
Seems like, these days, you couldn't run away at all
G/B F#/A E/G D/F# C/E
Even if you did, what you got to run away tox
G/B F#/A E/G D/F# C/G
Just another drunk daddy with a white man's point of view
G/B F#/A E/G D/F# C/E
I can see you in my mind's eye, catching light
G/B F#/A E/G D/F# C/G
Sleep beside the river if we make it out of town tonight
G/B F#/A E/G D/F# C/E
You can strip in Portland from the day you turn sixteen
G/B F#/A E/G D/F# C/G
You got one thing to sell and benzodiazepine
D G7+ C9
Ten years ago I might have seen you dancing in a different light,
D G7+ C9
and offered up my help in different ways,
G/B F#/A E/G D/F# C/E
but those were different days
G/B F#/A E/G D/F# C/G
Those were different days
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Had a girl back home and we shared her single bed
G/B F#/A E/G D/F# C/G
When I whispered in her ear, she believed every word I said
G/B F#/A E/G D/F# C/E
If she didn't believe, she didn't dare give me slack
G/B F#/A E/G D/F# C/G
Or it was "Baby, I love you, get off of my goddamn back"
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Time went by and I left and I left again
G/B F#/A E/G D/F# C/G
Jesus loves a sinner but the highway loves a sin
G/B F#/A E/G D/F# C/G
"The right thing's always the hardest thing to do"
D G7+ C9
Ten years ago I might have stuck around for another night,
D G7+ C9
and used her in a thousand different ways,
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but those were different days
G/B F#/A E/G D/F# C/G
Those were different days
D G7+ C9 G
And the story's only mine to live and die with
D G7+ C9 G
The answer's only mine to come across,
D G7+ C9 G
but the ghosts that I got scared and I got high with
D C9
look a little lost
D G7+ C9
Ten years ago I might have thought I didn't have the right
D G7+ C9
To say the things an outlaw wouldn't say,
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But those were different days
G/B F#/A E/G D/F# C/G
Those were different days
G/B F#/A E/G D/F# C/E
Those were different days
G/B F#/A E/G D/F# C/G