By The Time I Get To Phoenix chords by 
Thelma Houston 
N/A
Key: C major•
Intro 1
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Gsus4
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You know
Verse 1
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sometimes,
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when you're in love,
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Two people can grow apart.
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You find yourself waking
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up and wondering,
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when did all that sweetness go?
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When did we stop no ticing
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each other
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and smil ing and appreciat ing each other
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at the en d of every single day?
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An d even though your heart is filled
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with just as much love for them
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as the day you met
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You find yourself
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feeling loneliest
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whenev er you're together
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And you begin to wonder,
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why am I still holding on?
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An d may be you've
even asked your lover
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once, twice, three times even, hey baby,
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what's wrong?
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And he just looked back at you
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and said, oh, nothing wrong baby,
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I still love you.
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But in side,
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you know something's changed.
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An d though you don't want
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to admit it,
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somewhere deep inside,
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you know it's time to move on.
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It's time to breathe again,
and time to get back to yourself
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and start your life brand new.
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An d you know it's gonna
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hurt a while.
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But you know,
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you've already been sad far too long,
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and it's time to spread
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those wings and fly.
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An d then comes the day,
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a beau tiful sunny morning
when you wake up
and something inside
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And you says, this is the day
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Gsus4
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Yeah
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Oh, oh, oh
By the time I get to Phoenix,
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he'll be rising
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He'll find that note I
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left hanging on the door
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And he'll laugh when he reads the part
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that says I'm leaving
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Cause I've left that man
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so many times before
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And by the time I make Albuquerque
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He'll be workin',
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he'll probably stop at lunch
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Just to give me a call
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He's gonna hear that phone
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Keep right on ringing, ringing
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Dm
An d ringing off the wall
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That's all
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Cm
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By the time I make Ok lahoma,
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he'll be sleepin'
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He's gonna turn softly,
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and I know he'll call my name out loud
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And he's gon na cry just to think that
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I really, really, really need him
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Although time and time af ter time
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I tried to tell him so
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But he just didn't know
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I would really do
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Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh.
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But I had to leave it, darling.
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I had to leave it.
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It hurt my very soul.
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But I wanted to be you.
I had to leave you darlin'
It hurts so bad
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