ballad of the dying man chords by Father John Misty
Intro 1
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Naturally the dying man
Verse 1
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wonders to himself
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Has commentary been more lucid
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than anybody else?
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And had he successively beaten
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back the rising tide
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Of idiots, dilettantes, and fools
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On his watch while he was alive
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Lord, just a little more time
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Verse 2
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Oh, in no time at all
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This'll be the distant past
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Verse 3
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So says the dying man once
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I'm in the box
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Just think of all the overrated
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hacks running amok
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And all of the pretentious,
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ignorant voices that will go unchecked
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The homophobes, hipsters,
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and 1%
The false feminists he'd man
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aged to detect
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Oh, who will critique them
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once he's left?
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Verse 4
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Oh, in no time at all
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This'll be the distant past
Verse 5
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What he'd give for one more
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day to rate and analyze
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The world made in his image as of yet
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To realize what a mess
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to leave behind
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Verse 6
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Eventually the dying man
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takes his final breath
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But first checks his news feed to see
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what he's 'bout to miss
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And it occurs to him a little
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late in the game
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We leave as clueless as
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we came
For the rented heavens to
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the shadows in the cave
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We'll all be wrong someday
Outro 1
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ballad of the dying man
Father John Misty
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