• Song:

    Mrs. Potters Lullabye

  • Artist:

    Counting crows

Intro: G5

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Well I woke in mid-afternoon cause that's when it all hurts the most 
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I dream I never know anyone at the party and I'm always the host 
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If dreams are like movies, then memories are films about ghosts 
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You can never escape, you can only move south down the coast
 

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well, I am an idiot walking a tightrope of fortune and fame 
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I am an acrobat swinging trapezes through circles of flame 
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If you've never stared off in the distance, then your life is a shame
 

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and though I'll never forget your face, 
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sometimes i can't remember my name
 

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Hey Mrs. Potter don't cry

Hey Mrs. Potter I know why but
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Hey Mrs. Potter won't you talk to me 


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Well, there's a piece of Maria in every song that I sing 
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And the price of a memory is the memory of the sorrow it brings 
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And there is always one last light to turn out and one last bell to ring 
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And the last one out of the circus has to lock up everything
 

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Or the elephants will get out and forget to remember what you said 
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And the ghosts of the childer world will linger inside your head 
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And the ferris wheel junkies will spin there forever instead 
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When I see you a blanket of stars covers me in my bed
 

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Hey Mrs. Potter don't go 

Hey Mrs. Potter I don't know but 
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Hey Mrs. Potter won't you talk to me 


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All the blue light reflections that color my mind when I sleep 
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And the lovesick rejections that accompany the company I keep 
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All the razor perceptions that cut just a little too deep 
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Hey I can bleed as well as anyone, but I need someone to help me sleep
 

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So I throw my hand into the air and it swims in the beams 
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It's just a brief interruption of the swirling dust sparkle jet stream 
        B5                                 C5                    G5
Well, I know I don't know you and you're probably not what you seem 
        D5
But I'd sure like to find out 
                C5                             G5
So why don't you climb down off that movie screen
 

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Hey Mrs. Potter don't turn 

Hey Mrs. Potter I burn for you 
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Hey Mrs. Potter won't you talk to me 


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When the last king of Hollywood shatters his glass on the floor 
        G5       D5
and orders another 
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Well, I wonder what he did that for 
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That's when I know that I have to get out cause I have been there before 
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So I gave up my seat at the bar and I head for the door
 

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We drove out to the desert just to lie down beneath this bowl of stars 
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We stand up in the palace like it's the last of the great pioneer town bars 
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We shout out these songs against the clang of electric guitars 
        D5                               C5                   G5
You can see a million miles tonight But you can't get very far 
            D5                               C5                  G5       
Oh, you can see a million miles tonight But you can't get very far
 

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Hey Mrs. Potter I won't touch 

Hey Mrs. Potter it's not much but 
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Hey Mrs. Potter won't you talk to me
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