The Things That We Are Made Of chords by Mary Chapin Carpenter

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Verse 1
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I remember driving down the rutted
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roads  late at night
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Following the summer moon     bright
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as any pair of headlights
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I felt the air on my face and
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the night pressed inside my palm
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A moment captured in a place
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this memory stays strong

Verse 2

Oh my darling oh my love

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Oh my darling oh my love

The things that we are made of

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Verse 3

And I remember feeling I'm alive

and in no need of saviors

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If the past's another country I'm

at the border with my papers

Where is your heart if not inside you

where is home or are you lost

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Where is love if not beside you I had

no answers but they let me cross

Verse 4

Oh my darling oh my love

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Oh my darling oh my love

The things that we are made of

Verse 5
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Like the silence of my shadow
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when the twilight world is calling
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The loneliness that knows me
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by the cadence of my walking
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And the scar upon my elbow and the sound
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of my own breathing
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My reflection in a window and the way I'm always
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leaving

Interlude 1

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Verse 6
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And I remember wishing for some other
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life than this one I've claimed
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How often have I been convinced
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how eagerly I'd make that trade
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Then all at once I see your face and
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the summer night and the open door
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Dimmer now but not erased
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and I know what these are for

Verse 7
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Oh my darling oh my love
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Oh my darling oh my love
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Oh my darling oh my love
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Oh my darling oh my love
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The things that we are