Key: B major
Verse 1
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F
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Ab
Light struck from the lemon tree
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Gm
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F
What if I'd never seen hysterical
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Eb
Bb
light from Eugene?
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Bb
F
Lemon yogurt, remember I
Gm
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F
pulled at your shirt
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Eb
I dropped the ashtray on the floor
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Eb
I just wanted to be near you
Verse 2
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Bb
Emerald Park, wonders never cease
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Bb
Gm
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F
The man who taught me to swim,
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Bb
he couldn't quite say my first name
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F
Like a Father he led community
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Gm
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F
wa ter on my head
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And he called me "Subaru"
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And now I want to be near you
Verse 3
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F
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Gm
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Since I was old enough to
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Bb
F
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speak I've said it with alarm
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Gm
Some part of me was
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Eb
lost in your sleeve
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F
Where you hid your cigarettes
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Eb
No I'll never forget
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Eb
I just want to be near you
Verse 4
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Bb
Still I pray to what I cannot see
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F
In the sprinkler I mark the
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Bb
evidence known from the start
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F
From the bed near your death,
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and all the machines that made a mess
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Far away the falcon flew
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Now I want to be near you
Verse 5
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What's left is only bittersweet
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Gm
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For the rest of my life,
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Bb
admitting the best is behind me
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F
Now I'm drunk and afraid,
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wishing the world would go away
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What's the point of singing songs
Bb
If they'll never even hear you?
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