Shades Off chords by Ian Hunter

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Verse 1
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But the time isn't right and there's
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things to be done
And you're trapped half- way up,
you don't want to go back
So you keep going on,
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compromising the lack
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And you see the green fields as
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you travel on by
And you look at the things
you'd forgotten to try
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And you wish you were young and you
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wish you were old

Verse 2
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For the songs always sung and the stories
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been told
And you thought you were different
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but what did it mean
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For you tricked yourself trying,
life's still unseen
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As it is, as it was, as it always will be
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Will you find out at all what
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it is to be free
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See it never was easy to live with a head
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So I kept to the back room and I
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live there instead
What comes from the front-
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room is only for friends
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I have a bay window
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but that's where it ends