Key: Bb major
Intro 1
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Verse 1
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the blinding sun I might enjoy the view
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to use to describe to
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You all the ordinary things
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within my line of sight
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Verse 2
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Its only been 11 days I won
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der if I'll last
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unmolested of its past
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I've got books for if I'm bored
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a door to open when it's hot
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Verse 3
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Like afternoons when clouds come
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and hang low over the planes
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out here when it rains
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They dream and wake to find
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it gone as quickly as it came
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Verse 4
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And all around the dust spins and plays across
Interlude 1
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Verse 5
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But you and I are changeable
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Our compasses spin wild and we're
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blown round by the breeze
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We land to find the secrets and
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the people who confess them
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never to possess them
Verse 6
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So I go down to meet the raucous
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din that fills the bar most night
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and deftly avoid the fights
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One says "If we're all of this earth
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then on the earth we dwell,
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earth aswell"
Verse 7
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Another seems to be amused
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that I came here by choice
And it hits you,
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all the miles you travelled just to find a voice
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For all these ends and loose threads
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that need pulling in your brain
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Verse 8
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And all around the dust spins and plays across
Interlude 2
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Verse 9
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I try to understand the solar
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system 'till it hurts my head
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objects round my bed
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If the earth is on my pillow and
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the sun lies in the sink
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Verse 10
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Your father took me up to show
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the house upon the hill
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clothes to find your old room still
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As it was when once into with arm
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s of wood he crept
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Verse 11
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I can picture you now wak ing to
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another frosty morning
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the places they were born in
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Your little heart beats fast and sends
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a flush to your cheeks red
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Verse 12
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Are there ways that you can read my
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thoughts across the Great Divide
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you're here by my side
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Do they reach you as a shiver when you're
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up hiking 'neath the trees
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Or as a pollen in the air that makes you sneeze
Interlude 3
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Verse 13
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And on the air the dust plays
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and gets in everywhere
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Verse 14
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over me with all the stars aboard
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and it blows an eerie chord
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And I'll sign off this letter and I chop
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the ends and fold it
that someday soon your hands will hold it
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