Leaving This Life chords by Lori McKenna

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Verse 1
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I am
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six
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years old in the back of my mother's car
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And I  will be seven in December
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She will be gone by the be
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ginning of next spring
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And I  will be left to remember
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To remember
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Verse 2
ask my little questions and she
laughs her little laugh
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But she won't tell me
where we're going
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She looks in my eyes with
her eyes in the mirror
And says,
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"Some things you're better off not knowing"
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Not knowing

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Verse 3
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But I  don't know what
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her voice sounds like
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I  don't know what her skin feels like
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I only know what it might feel like
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When a mother holds her daughter
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When that mother knows
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she's leaving this life
Leaving this life
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Verse 4
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She's left with that reflection
of me at six years old
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And I  have her eyes in the mirror
? we are defined by what we have lost
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Don't you wonder whose
loss is dearer?
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Dearer

Verse 5
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She doesn't know what my
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voice sounds like
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She doesn't know what my skin feels like
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And I  only know what it might feel like
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When a mother holds her daugh
ter
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When that mother knows
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she's leaving this life

Interlude 1

Leaving this life

Verse 6
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And I  don't know what
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her voice sounds like
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And I  don't know what her skin feels like
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I only know what it might
feel like
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When a mother holds
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her daughter
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When that mother knows
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she's leaving this life
Leaving this life
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