these crazy times chords by Jon McLaughlin

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Verse 1
C 
Time's just a passin'
Everyone's fine if you ask 'em
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Am 
Like we're pulling a fast
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one with our smiles
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And when it gets  real bad
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C 
Oh, just raise your glass
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Am 
G 
We might as well laugh before we cry

Interlude 1

Oh these crazy times

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Verse 2
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All the stores are closing early
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And half the factories shut
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Em 
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down
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People are sleeping in the allies
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Em 
'Cause we could only
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Am 
bail a couple out
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C 
Talking heads on the TV screen
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Em 
G 
They try to tell us what to do
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F 
C 
How do you separate the truth
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C 
from the fake
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'Cause man I ain't got a clue
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Verse 3
C 
Time's just a passin'
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C 
Everyone's fine if you ask 'em
G 
Am 
Like we're pulling a fast
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one with our smiles
C 
And when it gets  real bad
F 
C 
Oh, just raise your glass
G 
Am 
G 
We might as well laugh before we cry

Interlude 2

Oh these crazy times

Verse 4
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Am 
I close my eyes and remember
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Em 
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Am 
The ones we lost last spring
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C 
G 
Rising profits mix with goodness
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Like that oil in the sea
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Verse 5
C 
Now time's just a passin'
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C 
Everyone's fine if you ask 'em
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Am 
Like we're pulling a fast
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one with our smiles
C 
And when it gets  real bad
F 
C 
Oh, just raise your glass
G 
Am 
G 
We might as well laugh before we cry

Interlude 3

Oh these crazy times

Verse 6
Am 
I remember when
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Dm 
But forget how long it's been
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G 
Since we all lived in peace
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Am 
But you can't just sit and
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grieve
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Dm 
The growing gap between
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G 
What we know and believe, I believe

Verse 7
G 
C 
And time's just a passin'
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C 
And everyone's fine if you ask 'em
G 
Am 
It's like we're pulling a
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fast one with our smiles
C 
Oh when it gets  real bad
F 
C 
Just raise your glass
G 
Am 
G 
We might as well laugh before we cry

Interlude 4
Oh these crazy times
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C 
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Dm 
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C 

Verse 8
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F 
C 
Well I’m running out of new words to say
And the sky’s been a
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C 
grayish blue for days
Dm 
And the slowly growing sympathy
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Waits for me on every face.
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C 

Verse 9
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C 
I’m trying to figure out what clever is
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C 
I look for clues in awkward silences.
Dm 
And I   don’t know what happened
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But I’ve been this way ever since.
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C 

Verse 10
F 
And the truth that keeps
me up at night
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Is somehow hard to recognize
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And the world is keeping both
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C 
my eyes closed.
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Yeah everybody knows.
C 

Interlude 5

There are elephants

Verse 11
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C 
in every room I see,
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C 
They softly hum beneath the words we speak.
Dm 
We’ve sugarcoating everything
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And now it’s rotting out my teeth.
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C 

Verse 12
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And the truth that keeps me up at night
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Is the hardest thing to recognize.
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Dm 
And the world is telling my eyes
What to see
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C 
G 
And everybody knows
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but me.

Interlude 6

To live

Verse 13
F 
you have to know what to ignore
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F 
C 
Decisions set the good and bad at war
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Your life is what you’ve chosen, but
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Living is the back and forth.
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C 

Verse 14
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And the truth that keeps me up at night
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Is the hardest thing to recognize.
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Dm 
And the world is pulling my  eyes closed,
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C 
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closed.
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And time’s not what she
used to be
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She’s turned into an enemy.
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Dm 
G 
And all that was in front of me is behind.
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God knows how I  try.