Having Been Is No Way to Be chords by Jeff Tweedy
Verse 1
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Em
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Oh I was na
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ive
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My shoes were untied
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In heaven everything is just fine
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But the phones are dead
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And so is the light
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And so are you
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And honey so am I
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But the earth still turns
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For the unconcerned
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Days pass below
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like train windows
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I was a sapling tree
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The birds looked like me
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Oh I begged my nerves to kick
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G
me something new
Verse 2
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From time to time
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I would watch you sleep
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Oh, I wonder how much
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freedom we can dream
Em
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Verse 3
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And I'm sorry when you wake up to me
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I just got tired
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Shining steady like a spider
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web's an empty stage
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Now the people say
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What drugs did you take?
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And why don't you start taking
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them again?
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But they're not my friends
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And if I was dead
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What difference would it ever make to them?
Verse 4
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If I got high
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From time to time
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Oh I wonder how much freedom
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you would need
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And I'd be sorry when you wake to me
Interlude 1
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I'm reaching out to you
Verse 5
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I'm writing all the time
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I don't see deep but I see far and wide
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I see dead trees
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But the roots have leaves
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Just because I can't describe it
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doesn't mean I shouldn't try
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To untwist the knife
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To unmake my mind
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Having been is no way to be alive
Verse 6
Em
And I'm alive
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When I watch you sleep
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I wonder how much freedom
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we need
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And I'm here
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When you wake up to me
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And I'm still here
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When you wake up to me
Having Been Is No Way to Be
Jeff Tweedy
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