The Rent chords by John Wesley Harding
Verse 1
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The doors they are now closing,
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shutters drawing to
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Guess it's you and me
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left alone at last,
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both looking for someone to shoot
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Me with the empty threads
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of nowhere words,
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you with your kid's blood.
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At that very moment when
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we cracked,
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someone somewhere was falling in love.
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It's a turn to face to face down time
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and is this gonna hurt?
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Traveled 9 ,000 miles just
to give you a light
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and I scrabbled in your dirt
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But even our sheets are clean now
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Our records, slates and thoughts
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If you even half cared,
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you'd take that rose out of your hair
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We're mourning like you are
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I don't wanna push, I don't wanna pull
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We rented this room together
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But baby, I can't face being tied up
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in this love that's not forever
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Interlude 1
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Gets so stuffy when
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Verse 2
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it comes to this
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Makes you feel like breaking
Verse 3
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The only way out is to smash
down the door
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That's how to kill or cure
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a heart that's been aching
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But I'd give everything I own
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just for grace to be
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I'd cut the film before you
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wore your silver lace for me
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But I don't want to push,
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I don't want to pull
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We rented this room together, baby
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I can't face being tied up
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in this lover's knot forever
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Well, there are two sides to every story
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You know there's more
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sides than I can imagine
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To every woman and every man
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who ever tried their hand at
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living
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The doors, they're all now closing
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The shutters draw in two
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Don't think we can move
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forward from here,
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but I guess it's not all up to you.
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The second hand is frozen,
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the minute hand's sublime.
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We're slower than slow motion
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How are we gonna pause the time?
Now we've decided that
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I don't wanna push,
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you don't wanna pull
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We've rented this room together
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But baby, I can't face
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being tied up in this
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No, I don't wanna push,
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you don't wanna pull
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We've rented this room
We've rented this room
We've rented this room
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Together you
The Rent
John Wesley Harding
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