Key: E major
Intro 1
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Verse 1
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the signs of the city
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Co coa grain against the snow
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Where the steam trucks meet the river
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And the women wash their clothes
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Like an alibi, you passed me
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Naughty dreams around your head
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An d the history of your passing
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Oh, it was nailed to my bed
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You did what you could do
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Before the en d
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You did what you could do
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again
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Well, they're burning down the prison
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Oh, just like John the Baptist
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foretold
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In the book he laced with
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his father
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Found on the Gethsemane road
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Curtains nailed to your pockets
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Rockets nailed to your coat
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The message written in your lipstick
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Oh, it was forged upon the
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snow
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Like a cave walk on the ocean
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I could never
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believe in you
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And the history of your passing
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Oh, it lies deep writ
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ten in the blues
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You did what you could
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do before the en d
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You did what you could do again
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your headlights
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Just forgetting all
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you've learned
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And the poet in your pocket
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Oh, he's out
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there getting burned
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You did what you could
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do before the en d
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You did what you could do again
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Oh, yeah.
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Oh. Oh, yeah.
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