Elaborate Lives chords by Heather Headley

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Intro 1

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We all

Verse 1
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lead
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such elaborate lives
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Wild ambitions in our sights
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How an affair of the heart survives
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Days apart and hurried nights

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Verse 2

Seems quite unbelievable to me

I don't want to live like that

Seems quite unbelievable to me

I don't want to love like that

I just want our time to be slower and gentler,

wiser, free

Verse 3
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We all live in extravagant times
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Playing games we can't
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all win
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Unintended emotional crimes
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Take some out, take others in

Verse 4
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I'm so tired of all we're going through
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I don't want to  live like that
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I'm so tired of all we're going through
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I don't want to love like that
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I  just want to be with you now and forever,
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peaceful, true

Verse 5

I wish I had the courage

To tell you face to face

But I could wait forever

For the perfect time and place

Verse 6
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We all live such elaborate lives
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We don't know whose
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words  are true
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Strangers, lovers, husbands, wives
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Hard to know whose loving who

Verse 7
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Too many choices tear us apart
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I don't want to live like that
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Too many choices tear us apart
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I don't want to love like that
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I just want to touch your heart,
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may this confession be the start
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