Key: E
Introduction: E
E
Turn away from the pain you don't want
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Turning down to avoid them when they call
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Strange words I heard a long, long time ago
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I wish I could go back to a summertime
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I knew more than twenty years ago
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Lay between the sheets
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Lie underneath the maple tree
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Now I can't smile
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Lying down in the grass with the wind around us
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As we smile and talk
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Listen to your grandma sing those country songs
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She'd tell us how the maple turns to fire every four years
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We'd lay in the grass all summer
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Just to watch the autumn come around
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I can't smile
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I can't smile, yeah yeah yeah
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Now I live alone
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And you're so far away
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Yeah, I call you every year
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Just around the holidays
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I still see you in the night
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Lying above me in the grass
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I can't smile
E5
Turn away from the pain you don't want
E5
Turning down to avoid them when they call
E5
I can't believe this letter that says you died
E5
I think I'm gonna go back to the house
E5
In North Carolina and lay in the backyard
E5
Get drunk and let the leaves just bury me, bury me
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I can't smile
G#5 C#5 A5 E5
I can't smile
G#5 C#5
I don't know what's happened to me
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I don't know what's happened to me
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I can't smile, hey