Lydia chords by
Margo Price
Margo Price

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Key: A minor
Intro 1
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Verse 1
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At the clinic, wonderin' what your face
would be like
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Mascara bleedin' to my eyes
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Tied like a dog on a chain with a mid
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life crisis and an ex husband
Sneaking a Marlboro Ultra Light I stole
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from a nurse out there in the alley
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Halfway home is where the heart
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is and I'm halfway home
Verse 2
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White trash, trailer trash,
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they said you'd always be it
And you said, "One day you'll see"
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But lately, you start to wonder
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if maybe they were right
Spit on you at school outside
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And n the locker room and
in the bathroom too
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Locked you in the stall
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Bless this mess, can I bum a light?
Verse 3
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The cars out on the L.A. freeway
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They look like red and white Christmas
lights strung out on a chain
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The ex virgin Mary of 49th street has
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a pocket full of pills
She sold herself for synthetic heroin and
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sleepin' with a man twice her age
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Really though it was anything
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but sleepin'
Verse 4
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Nice neighbors, bad cough
No health insurance this year,
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transitional neighborhood
Gentrification comes like it always does
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and some nice condos, they go in
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But the needles in the alley
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they're still layin' there
Don't go barefoot or take
a nap out there
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Wear shoes if you have 'em
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Undercover methadone clinic
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Children, close your eyes
Verse 5
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Say a lullaby and think of a nursery rhyme
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Or maybe somethin' your mama used
to tell you when you couldn't sleep
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Jill fell down, when the bow breaks,
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oh, the cradle will fall
Down will come baby, down will come baby,
down will come baby
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Just put out the cigarette
Just make a decision, Lydia,
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just make a decision
Interlude 1
It's yours
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Verse 6
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Close your eyes and make a wish
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Hear the whisper of God
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He used to talk like you,
you used to see His face in the clouds
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Now I see your face in my mind
It's wrong for him to want it
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Bless this mess, brush your hair
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Fix yourself up real nice,
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you've got a show tonight
Verse 7
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Singin' down at the Broken Bottle,
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half waiting shifts
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Get the guys a couple of beers,
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go on get the food, living off tips and meth
Then I came home after
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dancin' one night
And I wrecked my car
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So you had to take a bus now
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So you've got a long walk to think about it
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A long walk to the station
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A long life ahead to live with yourself
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So think about it, Lydia
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So think about it, Lydia
Outro 1
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