Sorry Excuse chords by One Drop

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Intro 1

Don't

Verse 1
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lay
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your hands
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I'm lying in bed with my
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tennis shoes on
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So  I could run for help,
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cause tonight it's going down
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He's been drinking all day,
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he claims he can't find any work
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Like a time bomb set by the liquor,
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somebody's bound to get hurt
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It starts off with name, cause and cousin,
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he breaks it down with low self esteem
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Once the bottle's empty,
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things start to worsen
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From the bedroom,
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I can hear them both scream
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Accusations, got one cheatin' on the other
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A sorry excuse for a man
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Through the crack of the door,
I can see him
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Smackin' with the back of his hand
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Ooh, yeah, yeah, yeah
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Ooh, yeah, yeah, yeah
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Ooh,  yeah, yeah, yeah
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Ooh, yeah, yeah, yeah
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I hop out the back window
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And I'm running just as fast as I can
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To  the payphone at the liquor store,
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so I can call the police man
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Operator, operator, an emergency,
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send me an ambulance
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Cause my mom is getting beaten
as I'm speaking
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and I don't know how
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much time she has
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I run back to an eerie cold silence
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As I step through the door
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I take a step and sadly notice
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Mama lying on the kitchen floor
Faced fuss, still breathing, badly beaten
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As the blood dripped
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straight from her chin
And I was running for some help,
it beat her with a dump
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Now that's a fine addition
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I wrap a towel around her head
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and I hold her close in my lap
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All around they see some broken glass
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and the soap that's lying
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on its back
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He returns as the cops show up
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and they take a sorry ass to jail
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She recovers with the stitches
and forgives him
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and she even helps post his bail
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You'd think she would
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learn a little lesson
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and decide that it's time to move on
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But when it's time for subpoena
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she pretends that there's
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nobody home
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She's sorry for the trouble,
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the abuse
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and the past is all done
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But I paid no attention
cause he's drinking and
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I go  to bed with my shoes on
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Don't lay your
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hands upon her,
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it doesn't make you more of a man
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Don't lay your hands upon her
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Don't lay your hands
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Don't lay your hands upon her
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It doesn't make you more than me
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Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah