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Long Story Short easy guitar chords by 
The Avett Brothers
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Intro 1
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Verse 1
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Here I am standing
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A
ten feet between us
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Beside me the door that
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I just came through
Verse 2
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Where I walked past an
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overweight cop in an alley
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With a beer gut bursting
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from a bullet proof jacket
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Who
Verse 3
thinks to himself
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"I've got to get back to the man that
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I was when I was a dreamer
With a partner in crime
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named Brandy McGill
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A girl with a love of life bigger
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than normal
Who still wonders when
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her life will begin
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Her best friend Maria who seems to have
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everything tells her
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She probably just needs a vacation away
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from the stress of her husband's vocation
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While Maria
Verse 4
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is talking, Brandy is drifting,
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staring at John who just got the job
Busing tables to pay for Com
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munity College
An Associates degree in
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x- ray technology
Verse 5
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John is too old to still be in college
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He doesn't like class and some
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times does not go
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Long story short his family was broken
Verse 6
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He was freed from a past
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life as a kid on Skid row
Verse 7
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He notices Brandy but stares at Maria
Her beauty well practiced
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in casting a spell
Verse 8
D
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Imagining her naked he spills dirty dishes
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On the lap of an elderly woman named Belle
Verse 9
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Em
A lady who won't live to see
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her next birthday
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But shares a warm smile re
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gardless of that
Verse 10
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The mess that unfolds com
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pletely surrounds her
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Not one bit of urgency enters her soul
Verse 11
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She reaches for Roy,
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her husband forever
In love and connection,
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her small hand he holds
Interlude 1
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Verse 12
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And nothing comes of it but a
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manager's anger
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Not for the mess, but her father's remark
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Em
About a bad grade she had as a child
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So she
Verse 13
takes her revenge
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out by firing John
Who now wonders when
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his life will begin
Verse 14
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Ain't it confusing to search
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for the will and learn
A
When you find it that you've
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lost your way
Verse 15
D
G
Long story short he saw a
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commercial that said that
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The 20's are the prime of your life
Verse 16
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But that doesn't seem to be
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Em
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true at this mo ment
As he cleans out his locker
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and calls his best friend
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G
Who's too busy to talk cause he's
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prepping with lawyers
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To keep money from his ex- wife
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The mother of
Verse 17
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their only son who's naturally
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drawn to guns and sharp objects
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Who now has no father except for
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on weekends two times a month
Verse 18
Em
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No need to worry, I'm told we're protected
by the men passing laws in the house
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And the senate from people who mix
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up the truth and reality
With movies and games and
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ridiculous scenarios
Verse 19
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Long story short, best I can tell,
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children can't be left to raise themselves
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