Tip Of My Tongue chords by
Mark Heard

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Key: G major

Intro 1

Verse 1
C C 
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There's an oasis
in the heat of the day
G G 
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There's a fire in the chill of night
C C 
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And a turnabout in circumstance
G G 
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makes each a hell in its own right
C C 
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I've been boxed in, in the lowlands,
in the canyons that think
G G 
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Been pushed to the brink of the precipice
and dared not to blink
C C 
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I've been confounded in the whirlwind
of what- ifs and dreams
G G 
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I've been burned by the turning of
the wind back upon my own flames

Verse 2

Knock the scales from my eyes

Knock the words from my lungs

I want to cry out

It's on the tip of my tongue

Verse 3
G G 
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C C 
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G G 
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Oh,
C C 
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I've seen through
the walls of this
kingdom of dust,
G G 
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felt the crucial revelation
C C 
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But the broad streets of the heart and
G G 
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the day- today meet at a blind intersection
C C 
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I don't want to be lonely,
I don't want to feel pain
G G 
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I don't want to draw straws
with the sons of Cain
C C 
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You can take it as a prayer if
you'll remember my name
G G 
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You can take it as the penance
Dm Dm 
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of a profane saint

Verse 4
C C 
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Knock the scales from my eyes
Knock the words from my lungs
G G 
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I want to cry out
It's on the tip of my tongue
C C 
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Knock the scales from my eyes
Knock the words from my lungs
G G 
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I want to cry out

Interlude 1

On the tip of my tongue

Verse 5
C C 
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There's an oasis in the
heat of the day
G G 
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There's fire in the chill of night
C C 
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When I know them both I'll know your
G G 
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love, I will feel it in the twilight
C C 
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Oh, as circumstance comes crashing
G G 
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C C 
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through my walls like a
G G 
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train, or like a chorus from
the mountains of the ocean floor
C C 
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Like the wind burst of bird
wings taking flight in a
G G 
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hard rain, or like a mad dog on the
far side of Dante's door

Verse 6
C C 
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Knock the scales from my eyes
Knock the words from my lungs
G G 
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I want to cry out
It's on the tip of my tongue
C C 
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Knock the scales from my eyes
Knock the words from my lungs
G G 
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I want to cry out
It's on the tip of my tongue
C C 
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Knock the scales from my eyes
Knock the words from my lungs
G G 
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I want to cry out
It's on the tip of my tongue
C C 
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Knock the scales from my eyes
Knock the words from my lungs
G G 
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I want to cry out

Outro 1
It's on the tip of my tongue
C C 
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G G 
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C C 
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G G 
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C C 
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G G 
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C C 
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G G 
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C C 
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G G 
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C C 
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G G 
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C C 
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G G 
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C C 
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