The Writer chords by Michael Moore

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Intro 1

Verse 1
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There's a madman
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standing by the water
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His gaze is fixed far
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away to sea
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There's a madman
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standing by the water
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Or do you ever wonder
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who such men can be?
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For his step,
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it always seems so hapless
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He seems to hang upon the air
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As if he'd just stepped
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Calvary
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And wished he'd been left
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hanging there
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There's a man that's staring
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to the water
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There's a   castaway who's
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waiting to be found
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Like a   sacrifice,
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stands before the altar,
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And he  prays he may never
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be drowned.
Father, my man,
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he dreams of other seasons,
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Where his life and work
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can be the same.
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When no man calls for his reasons,
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And no man mocks,
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no man mocks his name.
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There's a madman standing by the water,
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his gaze is fixed intensely on the sky
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And   were the seagull skins
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and eyes
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The man -o -witches he could fly
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For he wanders his days
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like a crippled bird
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Yes, sing his fate with
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every step
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For he never can unravel
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his own mystery
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When it traps him like,
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traps him like a net
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There's a madman staring
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through the water
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Where a yonder laughs
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at him so dark and grey
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Oh, and though he knows
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she's his only salvation
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He also knows
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he can't afford
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upon the waves
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Father
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Madman must work
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through his darkness
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and must sleep
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through the brightening day
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And the
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Madman will dream
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by the water
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Long till the sea shall carry him away,
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him away.