What Does It Mean To Travel chords by Mary Chapin Carpenter

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Intro 1

Verse 1

From departure to arrival

What does it mean to travel

With your suitcase by the handle

Holding everything you need

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Verse 2

Are you going or are you coming

Walking slow or running

Toward somebody or

from something

Trade your longing in for speed

Verse 3
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And the freedom to be a stranger
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Is a bargain that's ours alone
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Sometimes you just want
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to be someone else
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Unencumbered and
unknown
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Verse 4
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From departure to arrival
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What does it mean to travel
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And from taking off to
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landing
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You could feel your heart expanding
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You walked halfway down Manhattan
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Till you met the Brooklyn Bridge

Verse 5
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And in a two A.M transmission
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From a high wire act posi
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How the skyline behind you glistened
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As if someone pulled a switch
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And I don't want to be a stranger
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And I don't want to be alone
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But sometimes I just want to
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be somewhere else
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Untethered and unknown
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When I am far from home