The Lot Behind St. Mary's chords by Lori McKenna

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Verse 1
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We
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wanted
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to know when we'd be free
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What life looked like on the
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other side of that sanctuary
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Believin' somehow
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we'd make them proud
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Knowin' the sins they made and figuring we
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could stay on common ground
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Verse 2
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Cigarette smoke in an August sky
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Drinkin' the beers you convinced
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your older brother to buy
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We hadn't make any of our mistakes
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Our world was in the cradle but
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innocence wasn't in the grave
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And I know we can't go

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Verse 3

back in time

But every now and then you look at me

and I know you wonder why

We can't get back to when Septem

ber was our only adversary

In the lot behind St.

Mary's

Verse 4
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Well I thought I'd be
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all you'd need
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But your heart was in the dark and mine
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was in the weeds
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I'm sure the dreamer who
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built the first trapeze
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Fell in love with someone who grew to
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resent the goddamn thing
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And I know we can't go

Verse 5
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back in time
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But every now and then you look
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at me as if to wonder why
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We can't get back to the love we made before
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our teenage dreams were buried
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In the lot behind St. Mary's
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St. Mary's

Interlude 1

Verse 6
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A nightlight glowed in the rectory
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We told ourselves the pastor
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must be sound asleep
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But now we're old enough to
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know he never slept
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And that God's love is almighty,
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but our love is just bones and flesh
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And I know we can't go

Verse 7
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back in time
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But every now and then you you reach
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for me and I close my eyes and try
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To get back to that summer and the blue
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jeans we were wearin'
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In the lot behind St. Mary's
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St. Mary's