Key: D major
Intro 1
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Verse 1
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On a river of sighs
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a boat came toward me.
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A flimsy disguise covered the devil who sang from
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a songsheet of how modern life's a bore.
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In his choir boys' attire he sang
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me the life to which good girls aspire.
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Where many white coats give us pills to tame the horses that stamp on our
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floors and pills for when the horses had bolted out the door.
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It's hard to explain; I don't like hanging onto
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lead to where I need to get to every time.
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She moves in secret ways, and there is grace and poise,
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She moves in secret
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ways.
Interlude 1
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Verse 2
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Now the house is on fire,
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the rats are all screaming the horses are tired.
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They think they're still dreaming ‘cause the barn doors are open,
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the crossbar is hanging in the wind.
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So the devils sing tired,
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“Oh just look at what you're doing,”
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Yeah, he's joined by a choir of doctors and statesmen
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who've planned their sorry lives to the last days end.
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But look at all the happy things
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I don't like like hanging onto reins in my hands all the time;
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lead to where I need to get to every time.
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She moves in secret ways, and there is grace and poise,
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She moves in secret…
Days gone by I thought I had it
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all - filed in little boxes.
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Now I find I never had control,
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I just took little chances to move.
Verse 3
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he's singing to someone, my horses are free.
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They answer to no one, unbridled, untethered,
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they roam on the un marked land.
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In my house there's a calm, a peace has descended,
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no need for alarm.
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It's as she intended,
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I'm through with trying to fight the things I don't understand.
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Accept my sweet surrender to the greater,
better plan.
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I don't like hanging onto reins in my hands all the time.
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lead to where I need to get to every time.
Verse 4
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She moves in secret ways, and there is grace and poise,
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She moves in secret ways. She moves in secret
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ways. She moves in secret ways.
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