Obligatory Ballad chords by Fish

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Verse 1
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Time was when I called you
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before we went to sleep
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No matter where we were,
no matter the moment,
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no matter the time
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Time was when the words we spoke
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were always true
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There was no need to lie
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or  hide at that time
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And the answers we knew
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There were no questions,
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there was no need
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Our love was there to be believed
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But in time, the passion seemed to appear
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So ob  literate
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Time was when the moments
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seemed to last forever
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The time was when we never thought
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we would be anything but together
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Lonely people in separate rooms
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Lonely people with nothing to do
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Lonely people, just like me and you
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So predictable, so sadly true
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So  sadly true, so obligatory
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Just like me and you,
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Em 
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so obligatory, so obligatory
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If time will be a healer,
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then time will be my  friend
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And in time, the shadows lift
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and I can be gin to live again
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But in the hollows of this aching heart
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Remains a soul that was torn apart
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And in time, I will make a new start
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Oh, so bleak a dream
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Learn to love again
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Oh, so bleak a dream
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Once upon a time it was easy to say
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I love you
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I love you, I still love you
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So obligatory,
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it all became so obligatory you