Human Wheels chords by 
John Mellencamp 
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Key: F# minor•
Verse 1
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Written by: John Mellencamp and
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George Green
Interlude 1
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Verse 2
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This land today,
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shall draw its last breath
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And take into its ancient depths
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This frail reminder of its giant,
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dreaming self.
While I, with human-
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hindered eye s
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Unequal to the sweep ing curve of life,
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Stand on this single print
of time.
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Verse 3
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Human wheels spin round and round
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While the clock keeps the pace.
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Human wheels spin round and round
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Help the light to my
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face.
Verse 4
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That time, today, no triumph gains
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At this short suc cess of age.
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This pale reflection of its brave and
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Blundering deed.
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For I, descend from this vault,
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Now dreams beyond my earthly
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fault
Knowledge, sure,
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from the seed.
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Verse 5
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Human wheels spin round and round
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While the clock keeps the pace.
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Human wheels spin round and round
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Help the light to my face.
Interlude 2
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Verse 6
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This land, today, my tears shall taste
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And take into its dark em brace.
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This love, who in my beating
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heart endures,
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Assured, by every sun that burns,
The dust to which this
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flesh shall return.
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It is the ancient,
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dreaming dust of God.
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Verse 7
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Human wheels spin round and round
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While the clock keeps
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the pace.
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Human wheels spin round
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and round
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Help the light to my face.
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Human wheels spin round and round
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While the clock keeps the pace.
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Help the light to my face.
Outro 1
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