18 Years chords by
John Cowan
John Cowan

N/A
Key: D major
Intro 1
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It's a bittersweet
Verse 1
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Dsus4
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legacy you left me to find
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Every time that I fall,
I feel you push from behind
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18 years you've been gone,
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18 years you're still around
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How can you move me so much
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F
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from a hole in the ground?
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Dsus4
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In that small frame of house on a Bible belt
I never knew who you were
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and I never knew how you felt
Now I'm painting this picture
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and I don't know the truth
Did you do what you wanted,
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or what you had to do?
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Tell me!
Em
Em

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Hello, your blood runs through my veins
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I won't bear your cross,
cause I share your name
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Em

It's not the way that we die,
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it's the way that we live
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And I can't tell anymore
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Asus4

who I need to forgive
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They ain't genius
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They ain't genius
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You sat at the table
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with your seagram stare
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Was it love or obligation
that kept you there?
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I tried all your prescriptions
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for easing my pain
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Whiskey, drugs, women,
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they all feel, feel the same
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Em
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And though your blood
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F

runs through my veins
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I'm gonna bear your cross
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Dsus4

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D

cause I share your name
Dm
Dm

Em
Em

It's not the way that we die,
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F

it's the way that we live
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I can't tell anymore who I
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Asus4

need to forget
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Reaching, yeah
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Em
Em

Reaching, yeah
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G
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Asus4
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Dsus4
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Csus2
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I still need you old man
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but I don't need you to blame
As I stare at myself
in your picture frame
It's a good thing you ain't
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here to bail
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D

Dm
Dm

I've learned to count on myself
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D

Dm
Dm

D
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in a moment of doubt
Em
Em

And all your blood runs
F
F

through my veins
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D

I won't bear your cross,
but I'll say your name
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Dm

Em
Em

E
E

It's not the way that we die,
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F

it's the way that we live
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G

I can't tell anymore,
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Asus4

I need to forget
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Eighteen years
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Eighteen years
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Eighteen years
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Eighteen, eighteen
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Dm
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Yeah, yeah
Outro 1
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