Tabbed by:  Roger K.

Five Small Words - Elvis Costello (from "National Ransom")

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Maybe you'll recognize in time
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Maybe one day you will discover
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All the pain that lies behind
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You and your unfortunate love

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 Somebody might be more
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 Unsuitable and strange 
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With eyes that offer everything
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   And are capable of danger

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My mind turns over lies you told
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Things said to your other lover
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Sweet as they had been to me 
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You lay there telling them to each other

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Now I stand outside the door
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My head is filled with phrases
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Inside someone's calling out
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  Their voices rise in praises

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Five Small Words: "Don't want you me anymore?"
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Five Small Words (well, who is keeping score?)
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Coward that you are, you would faithlessly implore
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"Baby please don't leave me"
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"Why don't you believe me?"
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"Why did you deceive me?"

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It didn't take some shiny dagger
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Tattooed fingers grip and hone
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I walked under some dark ladder
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I heard your final loving moan

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All your indiscretions are 
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So merciful and   brief
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Genteel poison sprinkled on 
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 Your Spa--nish handkerchief

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Five Small Words: "Don't you love me anymore?"
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Five Small Words (well, who is keeping score?)
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The coward that you are, you would faithlessly implore
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"Baby please don't leave me"
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"Why don't you believe me?"
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"Why did you deceive me?"

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Maybe in time you'll want me more
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Accidentally like this .45 
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This .44

Outro:  [ E5   D5 A5 (16x)]  ...  E5