Back of My Mind chords by John Hiatt

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Intro 1

Verse 1
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Well my daddy
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he stood at the foot of the stairs
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He was calling to me at the time
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And I knew even then,
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I could die for the thoughts
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That I kept in the back of my mind

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Verse 2

But I dared not to speak

How I felt for my dad

Cause there were no words to define

The ball of confusion, of feelings and stuff

That I kept in the back of my

Interlude 1

mind

Verse 3
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So I took to the highway
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And I kept to myself
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Just a lookin' and hopin' to find
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Some solutions, some answers,
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someway to exist
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All this stuff in the back of my mind

Verse 4
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So I took me a job
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And I took me a wife
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And I took me a bottle of wine
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And it did not take long, 'til all I had left
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Was this junk
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in  the
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back of my mind

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Verse 5
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Well the end of the tunnel
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It never came up
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'til I came to the end of the line
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And I saw that the light I'd been
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hoping to see
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Was just a spark in the
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back of my mind

Verse 6
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And the cold wind that blew
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Through the hole in my heart
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Made a fire for the very first time
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From some branches of trust
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And a kindling of faith
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And that spark in the back of my mind

Verse 7
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Em 
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Drivin' like rain, or
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a run
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away train
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Flyin' blind,
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shot from the dark in the back of my mind