C E Am F


C     F E D C



Verse
  C         E 
Over the tracks,
   Am                F
with a sack full of matches,
  C                    F     E   D   C
I'm gonna burn all the letters I've wrote.
    C          E
Don't worry, darling,
 Am                    F
I ain't brave enough to catch it
       C         F    E   D  C
this fire that's licking my hopes.


Chorus
 F                C
Besides, if I went up
    F                 C                 
like a soaked rolling paper,
  F                     C                  
I'd still be fast-burning-out.
 F             C          F         Am
And what's the use of a good, strong noose
 C                       F    E    D   C
when your problem's too much hanging around?



Verse
 C                  E
So I walked back crashing,
 Am                  F
my pockets full of ash in
   C         F    E    D    C
the latesummer moon's holy glow.
   C           E             Am               F
that loved me to death on the banks of every river,
    C               F    E    D     C
where every breath in brought me home.


Chorus
   F                      C
'Cause if home's where hearts is
   F                    C       
beating like a bird's wing,
  F                        C       
then I've many homes and I should:
  F                        C     
said a man who wasn't homeless,
  C                   Am
"I'm always just traveling
 C               F    E    D    C
taking walks around my neighborhood."



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Verse
 C            E
Wisdom: it comes
  Am             F
but age don't unlock it.
  C                          F     E    D    C
You've got to spend all the passion you've found.
 C                        E            
With more change in their heads
 Am                      F
than in all of their pockets,

Outro
         C       F        Am        D   
some can show you the way to slow down. (oooh...)
  C                  F  E  D  C      
Sometimes we all need to slow down.