sometimes just the sky chords by Mary Chapin Carpenter

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Intro 1

Verse 1
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Noises
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in my head and endless should haves rain
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On me like a storm, like a hurricane
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Losses piled up like wood
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stacked stories high
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Feels like I've been framed,
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but I've no alibi
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Used to be

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Verse 2

that all I needed was

what I didn't possess

Yearning makes you who you end up as,

more or less

Whatever choice I made that worked

out was just a lucky guess

Just a lucky guess

Verse 3
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Adventures half discarded and
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half held on  to now
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Like dancing on a ledge to
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the edge somehow
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I can still pick out the faces
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though I forget the names
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And places that are gone,
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but the urge remains
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To throw cau

Verse 4
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tion to the wind
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or is it to the stars
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To hold out my open hands
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despite my empty arms
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To wear my heart upon my sleeve just
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like a battle scar

Verse 5
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These are battle scars There
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is
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comfort in a late night kitchen's ra  dio
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And in a letter sent,
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and lists of what you know
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And when you don't know anything,
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you make another one
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It's good to write it down,
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starting with the sun

Verse 6
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And sometimes church bells,
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trees and seasons marking times gone by
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Sometimes starling swells and tidal
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moons and filled up eyes
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Sometimes everything at once but sometimes,
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just the sky
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Sometimes just the sky

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