Straight Outta Time chords by John Hiatt

SimplifiedD · G · C · A · Em

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Intro 1

Verse 1
D 
Hot summer night,
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I was counting all the starlight on your skin
D 
Airtight, as I watched you breathing out,
G 
C 
I'm breathing in
D 
By the lake, so humid that the
G 
moon was getting wet
D 
For our sake the crickets started
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C 
playing their castanets
D 
Like a gypsy,
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you stole me from a child into a man
D 
It never hit me: I've been running
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C 
ever since I took a stand
D 
Find this love like Spanish moss
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hangin from the trees
A 
Just swaying in the breeze
Em 
like a sweet memory
G 
Running

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Verse 2
D 
C 
G 
straight outta time,
D 
C 
G 
D 
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straight outta time (x2) Since you were mine
D 
That autumn chill sent a shiver, girl,
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it shook us to the bone
D 
And we still had February
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C 
frozen on the phone
D 
Spring thaw,
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would it find us with our lips frozen blue?
D 
Love calls, but do we really live the
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C 
time we're running through?
D 
Or like a dream,
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do we let it die and drift away to sleep
D 
Until it screams like an echo in the
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C 
history books you keep
D 
'Cause that stream running from
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the corners of my mind
A 
Looking back I find like a
Em 
G 
river it unwinds
D 
Running straight outta time,
C 
G 
straight outta time (x2)

Verse 3
D 
C 
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A 
Running straight outta time just like
an old man's fiddle
Looking for the dance; gonna
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D 
meet me in the middle
A 
I'm never gonna figure out
the way that I feel -
Em 
G 
Running straight outta time,

Interlude 1
but my love's still real
D 
G 
D 
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C 
D 
G 
D 
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C 
Now I

Verse 4
D 
see you- you're looking
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pretty in your summer dress
D 
I can almost feel you as you clutch
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your little locket to your breast
C 
D 
Looking down at the picture,
G 
girl, you know you're looking fine
D 
Is it me? Was I ever in your heart
G 
or on your mind?
D 
G 
Cause I'm running outta time
D 
G 
I'm running straight outta time
Were you ever mine?