Key: E major•
Intro 1
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I waited till the morning,
Verse 1
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to come back into use
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I wrote it out a hundred times,
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but it never seemed as true as when I stumbled home and felt
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The words upon my lips
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You grabbed me by my arm and
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smelt the li quor in my truth
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I said, "I'm swimming in a cage"
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and I watched it fill the room
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Earlier than dawn you crept into
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the kitchen's light
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You always were an early bird,
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and I was always tired
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So I laid in bed all warm and wake
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and thought about the coming days
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I said, "I'm swimming in a cage,
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I'm swimming in a cage"
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I folded on my page and left it by the kitchen sink,
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where I knew that you would find it when you came back from New York
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You'd be sitting down the basket full of apples from the tree and with two hands you would open up my letter and begin to read,
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"I'm swimming in a cage, and I don't want you drowning, and as my boots turned up dust, I just hoped for understanding"
Outro 1
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TunerE A D G B E
ChordsE C#m A B F#...
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