Burning Herself chords by
Harry Chapin

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Key: A minor•

Intro 1

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Verse 1

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She was crazy

(she was beautiful),

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I guess she had to be.

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I was angry (you were blind),

Because I could not see.

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I saw only what her cigarettes

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had done to her skin.

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I should have known the outside world

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Would reveal what was within.

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She was burning herself,

And her hair was filled with ashes.

She was burning herself,

And her life becomes a flame.

She was burning herself,

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And the flame became her passion.

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She was burning her self,

And her passion,

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Her passion was her pain.

She was trusting (you could

have saved her too),

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All hope had passed for her.

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I was lusting (and she gave to you),

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That's all I asked for her.

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The marks upon her body

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And the marks upon her mind.

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I could have erased them

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If I'd only taken the time.

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I never saw her do it,

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I only saw the scars.

I never could imagine

What would make her go that far.

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I wondered,

Was she driven by desperate

need to feel,

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To find out she was living,

To discover life was real.

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Or was it that the pain

Slicing through her like a knife

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Was easier to take

Than the emptiness of life?

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Had a strange sense of drama

Caught her in a role,

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Or was she trying to cauterize

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The chancres on her sole?

I don't know

Outro 1

I don't know

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