City Rose chords by Nell Bryden
Verse 1
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I raised you well,
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my city rose
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Held you close and then let you go
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With the kind of love
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Am
only a mother knows
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My city roads
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No one picks their family
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I tried to give to you
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what I wanted for me
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Am
Oh, but each of us knows tragedy
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My city roads
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We would drive around
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G
with the sunroof out
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The rolling storms on the tape
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deck loud
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Heading for the ocean
Em
with the windows down
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My city roams
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C
Your dad and I, we grew apart
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But love was given at the start
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Am
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Are you angry cause I broke his heart?
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My job took me two states away
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Em
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And it was hard on us all to meet halfway
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Am
All the three of us in that dark cafe
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My city roads
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I would drive away
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under a heavy cloud
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I felt like screaming with a tape deck loud
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Heading for the ocean
Em
with the windows down
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My city rose
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It was always clear you had to get away
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Move to the bright lights someday
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Find your garden where you bloom
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And when you need me,
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I'll be there with you
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Till you drive home with
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the sunroof out,
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the rolling stones turned to blout
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You're heading for the ocean
Em
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with the windows down, my
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You're heading for the ocean
Em
with the windows down,
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my city roads
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