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Poetry

Key: C

Introduction:  G   Em7   G/F#   C   G   Em7   G/F#   C  

   G                               Em7         G/F#                         C 
Some things I've done make my conscience burn,
My very spine shutter and squirm.
 G                       Em7             G/F#       C 
I only hope that I've learned from my sins.
 G                                       Em7       G/F# 
I heard a voice when I was 13,
             C 
Got baptised and washed up clean.
                   G                                             Em7               G/F# 
But the world has a way, if you know what I mean,
 C 
Of scuffin' you up again.
   D                 D/F#             G 
- I can't explain a blessed thing,
                 C 
Not a fallen star or a feathered wing,
         D                       D/F#                                 G                   C 
Or how a man in chains can have the strength to sing.
 D                 D/F#         G 
(2."I'll Fly Away)
Just one thing is clear to me,                                   (3.
                     C 
There's always more than what appears to be
                               D                     D/F#         G           C 
And when the light's just right I swear I
see...poetry. -

 G                                       Em7   G/F# 
Well, somebody made everything
                   C 
From my soul inside out to Saturn's rings,
                 G                             Em7   G/F#           C 
How my baby smiles, how Ray Charles sings...
Of course we were created.
     G                                       Em7               G/F# 
Clouds make rain, the ocean makes sand,
           C 
The earth breathes fire, and lava makes land.
   G                                 Em7     G/F# 
Well, that took a mighty hand
               C 
And a wild imagination.
- REPEAT CHORUS -

   G                                       Em7           G/F# 
Dreams I dreamed came back ten-fold
                       C 
From the friends that I have to the woman I hold.
 G                                 Em7           G/F# 
I look down on a street of gold,
               C 
After all the mud along the way.
   G                                     Em7  G/F#       C 
Sometimes a big ol' mystery can lead right in on me.
                     G                         Em7   G/F# 
Says that I am home and I am free...
           C 
And I'll take that anyday.
- REPEAT CHORUS -
 D                 D/F#         G 
Just one thing is clear to me,
                     C 
There's always more than what appears to be
                               D                     D/F#         G           C 
And when the light's just right I swear I
see...poetry.