Lauren O'Connell - 1988

CAPO II

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F#m
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INTRO (played in a strumming rhythm)
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There are four whole people in this house
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And I'm the last one awake again
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And tomorrow we'll be biting nails
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And biting tongues to higher stakes again
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And I'm thinking if I just don't sleep
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The morning won't sneak up on me
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As just another yesterday again

CHORUS
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But I was brilliant for just one day
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In nineteen eighty-eight
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I didn't have to talk, I didn't have to think
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They flushed my sins right down a sink
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Ten fingers and ten toes, and you're okay
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Yeah, I think that's what they say
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Well, how about today?

INTRO RIFF

VERSE 2
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I think the world has got my number
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Oh my God, there's digits in my eyes
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I think that I've been dancing 'round
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The brightest rooms in a cellophane disguise
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Everybody still remembers
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Things that I said last September
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Oh, but worst of all, so do I

CHORUS
            D                     E
But I was a stranger for just one day
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Born with the cleanest slate
   D
My mother loved me before she knew me
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Gave me a name that didn't suit me
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But hey, that's okay
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I've kept it anyway
        Esus4   E   A
What if I threw it away?

INTRO RIFF

VERSE 3
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And to me God's just a metaphor
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He's a metaphor for everything that's strange
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I take his name in vain a lot
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But I'm not sure just what it means these days
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Sometimes I wish that I were still religious
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Along with a lot of other wishes
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But I don't think that God would know my name

CHORUS
             D               E
But I was forgiven in bygone days
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When I still knew how to pray
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And all the words were etched in gold
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On the little Bible that I stole
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From my teacher in second grade
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The one I didn't mean to take
    Esus4      E     A
Oh, what would Jesus say?

INTRO RIFF
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F#m
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CHORUS/OUTRO
E               D             E
And things were perfect for a time
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In nineteen ninety-nine
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I was eleven years old, and we drove south
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Yeah, down to my grandfather's house
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And everything was fine
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It was right before he died
        Esus4  E       A
We were all so goddamn fine
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F#m / the intro here
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We were all so goddamn fine