The Idiot chords by Henry Priestman

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Intro 1

Verse 1
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All the days
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are getting shorter
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And the night is closing in
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And just like the hair upon my  head
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This joke is wearing thin
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Remember when life came
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on like an avalanche
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When it filled my every pore
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Though it seems a hundred years ago
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I'm still holding on for more
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And now, it's the autumn
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before the winter
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The candle is burning low
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What am I heading into?
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And who knows where all
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the time goes?
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Lord knows it's
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the last -minute rush
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The last -minute surge of youth
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Now the weeds are taking over
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In the garden of delights
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The ambitions of those early years
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are no longer in my sights
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Oh, but there's still so much
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that I've got to do
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And so much I want to say
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And the source of my enlightenment,
though she's gone
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Still guides my way
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Now, it's the autumn
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before the winter
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When the cracks begin to show
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What am I heading into
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On who knows where all
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the time goes
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Before the doors close
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It's the last mad rush
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The last mad surge of youth
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I'm the saddest man alive
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I'm the saddest man alive
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But I still love this wild ride
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Now, it's the autumn
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before the winter
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The hoarfrost before the snow
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What are we heading in to?
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But who knows where all the time,
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where all the time goes
I'll surely find out sooner
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than I suppose
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But I'm not done yet,
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believe me that's the truth
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Here's to a last -man -rush
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and the last -man -search of youth you