Why Am I Awake chords by
Eileen Rose
Eileen Rose

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Key: C major
Verse 1
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Well, these grey December mornings
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come to claim you
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The cold New England winter
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settles in your bones
And those two Kentucky boys
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you love to play to
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They knew nothing from nothing,
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just did as they were told
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As you do and I do,
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and yet we insist that we're free
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Then Christmas will come
and there'll be no forces
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to put up a tree
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Because guilt, it's never on loan,
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it's yours for the keepin'
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Why am I awake, why are you sleepin'?
Now our chiefs don't care if we're happy,
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as long as we're quiet
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Our mothers, they fear for our futures
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while living in the past
And our dads exist
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on a diet of dumb jokes and movies
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And the stones only tore
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if the fans will cough up the cash
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But they do, and those who refuse
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like to think they are wise
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They're stashing away pensions,
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praying the waters don't rise
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But their eyes will be in silence
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while each one is thinking
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Why am awake?
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How are you sleeping?
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Now if you keep me in the sense
that moisture rises
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My body will let it die
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Till one day you're blood and coiling
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With a grocery boy who calls you ma 'am
And you wanna die
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I tied to the thoughts and the themes
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I can't help but repeatin'
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Why am I awake?
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Why are you sleepin'?
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While it makes no sense to theorize
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About the murder of innocents
in Decent Wine
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The clubs are jammed
with all these single birds
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And their revisionist ideas
So what if my time like it's like dead
Revealed just one original thought, one time
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In a whole lives I am tied to
The hell of things I know
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There's no point in regretting
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Why am I awake?
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Why are you sleeping?
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Why am I awake?
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Why are you sleeping?
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