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