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          Dm
If you're keeping score then you're bound to win,
  Bb                 Bbsus2
A birds eye view of a burning bridge,
       Dm
You've gone through ghost towns set on pause,
  Bb                Bbsus2
Hoping the risk was worth a cause,

Dm
Oh, sound off the false alarm,
Bb   A
Oh, Oh

          Dm         Em             Bb            Gm
But I'll make my own colleague from wood and from ivory,
    F           C           Dm
And reap the rewards of proximity,
       Dm        Em               Bb          Gm
I'll assemble my equal from what I lack and require,
    F             C       Dm
And gather what's left unaccompanied,

Gm                  Dm
It smells like disaster,
F               Dm
It looks like a trap,
Gm            Dm
So go by the wayside,
Eb               A
And never look back,

   Dm
If you could spare me forty winks,
      Bb               Bbsus2
While you cry wolf and I count sheep,
     Dm
What good old ghosts in Kevlar vests,
     Bb              Bbsus2
With backbones like a jellyfish,

Dm
Oh, stomp on your land again,
Bb   A
Oh, Oh

          Dm         Em             Bb            Gm
But I'll make my own colleague from wood and from ivory,
    F           C           Dm
And reap the rewards of proximity,
       Dm        Em               Bb          Gm
I'll assemble my equal from what I lack and require,
    F             C        Dm
And gather what's left unaccompanied,

Gm                Dm
It smells like disaster,
F                Dm
It looks like a trap,
Gm           Dm
So go by the wayside,
Eb               A
And never look back,

          Dm
If you're keeping score then you're bound to win,
  Bb                Bbsus2
A ring side seat at the main event,

Dm
Oh, stomp on your land again,
Bb   A
Oh, Oh

Gm                Dm
It smells like disaster,
F               Dm
It looks like a trap,
Gm           Dm
So go by the wayside,
F              Dm
And never look back.

Gm                Dm
It smells like disaster,
F               Dm 
Thank God I can smell,
Gm           Dm
So go by the wayside,
Eb             A        Dm
And never look back.


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Enjoy!

- Nelson