What You Look For chords by Mary Chapin Carpenter

SimplifiedD · A · G · Bm · Em

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Intro 1

Verse 1
D 
What you look for on a dirty street
G 
A 
Is a patch of green beneath your feet
D 
A stubborn weed or a traveling rose
G 
A 
Either one lives to grow
D 

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Verse 2

What you look for in a stranger's eyes

Is if he sees through your disguise

How we long to be revealed

To be known we might be healed

Verse 3
G 
A 
D 
Send it out into the Universe
G 
A 
D 
G 
A humble plea, a wish, a broken verse
A 
Be a seed that lands inside
D 
G 
the cracks
Em 
A 
Seek the sun and it shines

Interlude 1

back

Verse 4
A 
D 
What you looked for when you were a girl
G 
A 
Was a window out into the world
D 
From a speeding car or a
passing train
G 
You were hypnotized just the same
A 
And

Verse 5
D 
what you look
for now that you are grown
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A 
Is proof of how time has flown
D 
An empty house, a strand of grey
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A 
And an endless longing for yesterday

Verse 6
G 
A 
D 
Send it out into the Great Elsewhere
G 
A 
G 
A kind of hope, a chant,
A 
D 
G 
a simple prayer
A 
Be the child whose dreams
D 
won't ever fade
G 
Em 
A 
Shout and storm the barricades

Interlude 2

Verse 7

What you look for in your darkest hour

Is a dirty street with just a flower

Verse 8

Send it out not knowing where it went

Into the blue, into the firmament

Be the one who wonders at it all

Verse 9
G 
A 
D 
Send it out into the Universe
G 
A 
A humble plea, a  wish,
D 
G 
a broken verse
A 
Be a seed that lands inside
D 
G 
the cracks
Em 
A 
D 
Seek the sun and it shines back