A Keeper for Every Flame chords by Mary Chapin Carpenter

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She says it's been so long,
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she can't remember when
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The mention of his name
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didn't make her feel again
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That everything is possible and every
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day a brand new start
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Yeah, love's something powerful when
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it finds a willing heart
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Sometimes it's a fire
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burning out of control
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Sometimes it's a candle
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burning long and low
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All these years she never let it go
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There's a keeper for every flame
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There is someone in his past that he
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hasn't gotten over yet
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Each day's like the last,
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he just misses what he can't forget
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It's just an empty space
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where something used to be
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Now he guards the gate,
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but he's lost the key
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So no one enters,
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but no one leaves
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There's a keeper for every flame
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Thought my heart had broken,
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but it was just a little bruised
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I thought love had spoken,
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I guess I was just confused
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Sometimes we were a fire
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burning out of control
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Sometimes we were nothing
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but a candle glow
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But it never died, baby,
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how I know

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Outro 1
There's a keeper for every flame
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