So it Goes chords by Ieuan Williams

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Intro 1

Verse 1
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can see fainter strips of light
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Peering in from day into this night
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Your shape I cannot hold
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That much longer so I'm told
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Monday morning coming in
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It's getting light
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So I wake all out of shape
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and common sense
Shoulder the weight of labours
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lost and money spent
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Though may the day refuse to yield
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I'll stand behind my sword and shield
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And stay the course,
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pushing through like
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sharpened steel
And when the wood once disappeared
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behind the trees
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In a clambered interview,
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I stopped and  stumbled to my knees
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They said ignorance is bliss,
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then they sealed it with a kiss
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Sleight of hand, shut your eyes
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and scold your skin
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And I know, that the only thing we know
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is we don't know
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And so we stay the salt,
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the ebb and flow
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into the rhythm of  our blood
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Drag our bodies through the mud,
onto the shore
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Only to wait till morning
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brings us more, and so it goes
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And while the diplomats
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shake hands and plan their wars
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Set the scene for lovesickness,
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and it's gone
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Strike a chord and we can sing
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about the beauty life can bring
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Stout of heart, clean of wit,
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and wandering
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We martyr for our
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darkened office floors
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Not to know if us or them we're dying for
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But with our banners held up high
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We can still make it through
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these nights
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And then on Sunday ask our gods
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for something more
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And   oh,
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they clip our wings and make it so
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We hold their hands and
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they tell us not to
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And while our pictures gather dust,
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our sword and shield begins to rust
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And then we fall,
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and they won't answer when we call
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And so it goes
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And so the poets hide
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from the stark and sullen lights
Not to give up but to doc
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ument the plight
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While the scientist persists
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Although she knows she
won't be missed
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Says make your mark,
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then make it out of this
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Make your mark, then make it out