The forty foot chords by Bernard Butler

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Intro 1

Verse 1
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I used to feel my soul desire
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Wish that I  might try
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To escape the troubles
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But it's not as easy as
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I'd like
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I get a shiver from the darkest place
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Oh, let it infiltrate
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My dreams are av arice
Till I wake
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Dive in just to face the day
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I'm gonna give it till the morning comes
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I see my life become
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A town, a thought, a panic, a sea of faith
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All I believe in, I must face
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I see you standing by       the forty foot
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The ice- cold channel
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Of a
Christian soul
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Disappearing in that hole
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Well, I'd be better off to hedge my bets
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Than to check your plan
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Because the tide
releases me from regret
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The echoes of the city and
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the fear
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I'm gonna give it till the morning comes
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To see my dreams undone
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By the guilt of the thoughts that I had
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Sea of grace, all I believe in,
I must face
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With guilty swimmers,
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like a colored sense
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Oh, my sleeping face, diving just to face the day
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So
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I'm going