Near Life Experience chords by Soulscript

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Verse 1
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G 
He was not the perfect father,
he was not the perfect man
Em 
Always missed the mark on love,
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he should have been a better friend
D 
Though he tried the best he could,
G 
it was never enough
Em 
Behind every silver lining
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G 
storm clouds rolled in
D 
He spent countless lonely hours
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Peering out into the darkness
Em 
Over stale cups of coffee
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Bm 
F#m 
Before the birds would sing
D 
And while his lonely
family and friends
G 
Thought that he was
gently dreaming
Em 
Through the broken door behind him
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Bm 
F#m 
in the house he seemed to live
Bm 
D 
It was a new life experience
Em 
G 
It always seemed that hope
F#m 
was just a little inside his grasp
Bm 
D 
A new life experience
Em 
G 
A time when all the futures
F#m 
seemed to fade
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F#m 
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D 
to        the past
He worked hard to make a living,
G 
to keep food upon the table
Em 
An honest day for an honest dollar,
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F#m 
but he gambled away
D 
Upon his dream of life he wasted,
G 
at least other people say
Em 
They closed the door behind him
F#m 
G 
to the house where he seemed to live
Bm 
D 
It was a near -life experience
Em 
G 
It had all the makings
F#m 
of a happy ever after
Bm 
D 
Near -life experience
Em 
G 
Whenever opportunity is tempered
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F#m 
with disaster
G 
And all the folks that
passed around him,
Bm 
they would often stop and ponder
A 
Just what happens to a man
F#m 
Em 
to bring him so    far down
G 
He was once a loving convert,
D 
with the wild and untamed wonder
Em 
G 
Now his eyes can hide defeat inside
Em 
And every time he walks his tatter,
A 
he goes straight to ground
D 
G 
Then one night, Dio awoke,
and a cold sweat drenching fever
Em 
Driven to the brink of reality
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F#m 
from a drew short limb
D 
G 
While his other family members,
whoever know him, kept on sleeping
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Em 
He  stole away into  silence,
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Bm 
F#m 
never to return again
Bm 
D 
He had a new life experience
Em 
A view from the mountaintop,
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he saw the promised land
Bm 
D 
A new life experience
Em 
G 
He just closed a book on this plan
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to future by the hand
Bm 
D 
And it was a near -life experience
Em 
G 
It all seemed like hope
F#m 
was just a little inside his grasp
Em 
G 
Tell me now if you just seem to
F#m 
D 
G 
D 
fade into the past
G 
You