Key: C major
Intro 1
E
C#m
A
E
C#m
F#m
A
E
Verse 1
E
Thirteen
in the thick of a cornfield
C#m
A
I learned to fight, keep roads tied,
and not chill
E
Never did change, stayed strange,
hopped a train
C#m
A
E
My first chance I got out of Smallville
A
Life has it's way of movin' you on,
E
don't it?
Interlude 1
C#m
A
E
My first stop
Verse 2
was a pawn shop
C#m
Dropped a pretty penny for
A
a cheap Fender with a song in it
E
I had a quick right hand, and an old band
C#m
A
I thought good friends would
E
make a good band
A
Life has it's way of provin' you wrong,
don't it?
E
And I've been right
Verse 3
and I've
been wrong
A
E
Somewhere in between for so long
Live the night, miss the light,
A
E
and I've been shown it
A
Life has it's way of keepin' you strong,
E
don't it?
Interlude 2
E
C#m
A
Verse 4
A
E
So there I was, a long way from nowhere
C#m
A
E
Fried mind, spare time and a blank stare
I was just numb enough not
C#m
to feel a thing
A
After all we didn't share
E
a set of rings
Besides, how bad could it be!
C#m
She never found out I'd
A
E
never come clean
A
Life has it's way of leadin' you on,
don't it?
Verse 5
E
And I've been right and I've
been wrong
A
E
Somewhere in between for so long
Live the night, miss the light,
A
E
and I've been shown it
A
Life has it's way of keepin' you strong,
Interlude 3
don't it?
E
C#m
A
E
C#m
A
E
Verse 6
E
Well now, have you ever been
C#m
down the old back road?
A
E
On time borrowed
It's a trip, it's a bitch,
C#m
it's an on and off light switch
A
E
Nobody follows
Everybody's got their own past
C#m
Skeletons to stash,
A
E
don't look back if you do, laugh
A
Life has it's way of movin' you on,
don't it?
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