Off The Dam chords by Fred Eaglesmith

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Verse 1
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The fog is on a changeless wind
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I'm outside your door again
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I've got a broken
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record in my hand
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The river's breaking up,
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you know I came to tell you adios
I don't expect you to understand
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But I can hear the water
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fallin' off the dam
This town is full of last week's news
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Summer dreams, winter blues
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They rattle round like an old tin can
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Lovers parked down by the water
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Farmer sons, bankers' daughters
There's their little words
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spinning in their hands
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But I can hear the water
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falling off the dam
My silhouettes are telling me
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I'm not the man I used to  be
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My intuition's danced across the sand
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Icicles drip off your soffits,
I had a dream
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But I lost it,
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I guess you figured they were only plans
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Or could you hear the water
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fallin' off the
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Damn.
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Your soft shoes in your catholic braces
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Your angels in your powdered faces
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Your sadness, all those one -night stands
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Make -believe reservations
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to make -believe
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Destinations,
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seems so much bigger than I am
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I can hear the water fall
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ing off the dam
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Can't you hear the water
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falling off the dam?
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Baby, the water's falling off
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the dam
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