Almost Wisdom chords by The Walkabouts
Intro 1
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Verse 1
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Got an
earthquake shack near Elbe.
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Got a garden of dyin' cars.
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Covered up deep in the mud of
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the powerline road.
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Verse 2
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And at night I can hear the lockjaw,
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And the swagger of the devil's tongue.
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Comin' on down from the wires
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of the powerline road.
Verse 3
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Sayin' that tomorrow's just
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a cheap shot at today.
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And that we've gone beyond
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our reckoning.
And if we don't face the troubles now,
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our families will betray.
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And that's the one good
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reason left to give.
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And it's almost wisdom.
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Verse 4
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Geneva took the kids back home,
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Never heard from her again.
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That's back when I worked
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all them 12- hour days.
Now I idle here wickedly,
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right through the thick and thin.
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Never to believe what
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I cannot live.
Verse 5
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Knowin' that tomorrow's just
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a cheap- shot at today,
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And that we've gone
beyond our reckoning.
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And if we don't face the troubles now,
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our families will betray.
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They'll take the one good reason
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left to give.
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Verse 6
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I was drunk on her suspicions,
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And a fifth of Early Times.
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I went down into Elbe just
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to pick a fight.
And there behind the laundry house,
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was Geneva in a car
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She opened the front door
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and shouted to the night.
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Verse 7
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Shouted that tomorrow is the
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last chance for today.
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Shouted soon we'll have our
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reckoning.
Shouted that the trouble here
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leaves us nothin' to betray.
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And nothin' is the one
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thing left to give.
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And it's almost wisdom.
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Almost wisdom.
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Almost wisdom.
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Almost wisdom.
Outro 1
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Almost Wisdom
The Walkabouts
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