the breaking of a man chords by John Forte
Verse 1
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I know you've seen
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the breaking of a man
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You take it all you can
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As if the house we made
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was laid across the sand
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Oh Lord, the penalty for suf fering
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can seem so high
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Dreaming the days
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when everything's so dark
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Tried to walk good,
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but that road that's starting to show
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I, John, thought exercises,
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sought out to advise and add on
I changed the thinking
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you so proudly had
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on this mobilizing effort
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It picks up from where the best
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of the best came and left it
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The treasure of truth,
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I mix drinks within the booth
It can't be measured with youth
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I break leaven with the seven
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that would ever produce my past
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estranged the light if change is right
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you can say the judge killed me
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then i came to life a new
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born like a neophyte
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fruitful love from the tree of life
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this is the letter
i don't need the right
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pc law bless the stars
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if i don't breathe the night
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i don't save you from yourself
maybe jesus might
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but i envision this better steady higher
living from this system
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though you dudes might be
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dead already.
I graduated from a school
where the minds vary,
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to hold the burden on to those
that only time carries.
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This Cherry Blossom martial artist
studied the Chi,
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written on Gossamer,
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tutored by philosophers demonstrably.
I deconstruct the subpar
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and put them back together
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like the monsters be.
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How you want it?
Obvious or subconsciously?
If every man has his
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The price who sponsors me,
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you should do more than
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just drink responsibly
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You see, even in the Mauer's law,
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John was free
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I know you've seen the
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breaking of a man
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You take it all you can,
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as if the house we made
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was laid across the sand
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Oh Lord, the penalty for suffering
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can seem so high
Dreamin' the days
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when everything was so dark
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Tryin' to walk good with his dad,
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bro
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Startin' a show
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If fate would have it,
they would have me talkin' savage
Like the average among us
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and not confined to the youngest
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I'm like the magical healer
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slash masterful builder
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I know the middle of steel is in the
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hands of the wielder
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They tried to shatter my leader,
do bad to the breather
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For living page 27 from the bag of Vegeta
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So when his time stopped, where he lay
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Read I'd rather be hated for what I am
than loved for what I'm not
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You can't sub tract logic,
I put tulips on his grave
And waxed philosophic
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to the words he gave
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Read my lips, it's a new day runnin'
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And it ain't comin' cause
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it's here for the takin'
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It's been years in the makin'
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I spent years in the station
Waitin' to make this entrance
I'm here to free the world,
young star
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What's your intention?
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This is warfare, youngin'
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Lightning is flashing now
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Tune in and let's see what's
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happening now
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One way or another it's going down
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I know you've seen the
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breaking of a man
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You take it all again
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As if the house we made
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was laid in frost the same
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Oh Lord, the penalty for suffering
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can seem so hard
Dreaming the days
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when everything was so dark
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Tryna walk good with this bad bro
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Start the show
Outro 1
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the breaking of a man
John Forte
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