Key: D major
Verse 1
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Well now on a summer night,
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oh in a dusky room
Come a little piece of
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the Lord's undying light
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Crying like he swallowed the fiery moon
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In his mother's arms it was all
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the beauty I could take
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Like the missing words to some
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prayer that I could never make
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Oh, in a world so hard and dirty so
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fouled and confused
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Searching for a little bit
of God's mercy
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I found living proof
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Interlude 1
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Absus4
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Well, I put my heart
Verse 2
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and soul, babe,
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I put 'em high upon a shelf
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Right nex t to the faith,
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the faith that I'd lost in myself
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I went down into the desert city
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Just tryin' so hard to shed my skin
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I crawled deep into some
kind of darkness
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Lookin' to burn out every
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trace of who I'd been
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You do some sad, sad things baby
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When it's your you 're tryin' to lose
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You do some sad and hurtful
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things
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I've seen living proof
Interlude 2
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Verse 3
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You shot through my
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anger and rage
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To show me my prison was
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just an open cage
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There were no keys no guards
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Oh, just one frightened man and some old
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Ab
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shad ows for bars
Interlude 3
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Verse 4
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Well now all that's sure
on the boulevard
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Is that life is just a house of cards
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As fragile as each and every breath
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Of this boy sleepin' in
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our bed
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Tonight let's lie beneath the eaves, babe
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Just a close band of happy thieves
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And when that train comes
we'll get on board
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And steal what we can from the treasures,
treasures of the Lord
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It's been along long drought baby
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Tonight the rain's pourin'
down on our roof
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Oh, looking for a little bit of God's mercy
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I found living proof
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Oh living proof
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I found living proof
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Yeah, living proof
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I found living proof
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Oh living proof
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I found living proof
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Oh
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Yeah I found living proof
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I found liv ing proof
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I found living proof
Outro 1
Oh
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