Hourglass chords by Patty Griffin
Intro 1
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Verse 1
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The hourglass never really runs out of sand
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You get to the end and you just turn it up side down
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again It's like a book where the story never ends
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The plot keeps turning around
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I was dancing with my eyes closed
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The music had me in a trance
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Six o'clock in the morning came
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around I was the last one at the dance
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Morning takes a stiff upper lip
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A turned up collar and some very strong hips
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A strong will for when the money slips
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And they ain't calling you a lady
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now
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A sister told me sometime ago There's no reward for lost
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sheep You'd better learn to look sharp, Keep it in the lines,
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Don't go swimming where
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the river's too deep
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But I knew all along that just wasn't me
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I went swimming in the river with the ghosts and debris
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Shouldn't a person at least try to be free
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Instead of giving up and just
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pretending to be?
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Morning leaves you in a strange place A dirty mir
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ror and a stranger's face Nowhere to run
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Too late to back out of it
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Might as well stick around And take a crack out of it
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C
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C
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Ive heard it said many times that life is a dream If it is I've been dreaming
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of a crazy machine That's been choking out the love
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Killing too many dreamers
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And I just wanna tear that
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old machine down
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Ask me what I would
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dream up in it's place
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Well, I'd dream of a forest where we could all
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meet face to face Where love could be love
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Dreams could be dreamers
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Dreamers dreaming of love
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And it's many wonders
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Dreamers dreaming of love
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Hourglass
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