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C F CWhile you were reading the black bible in the sun
Am FI was half drunk out the window of a moving city bus
G C FWilder than the devil, like a tiger in the brush
G C FLouder than an atom bomb that only you could hush
G C FSpinning like the Earth and Moon, but never really touched
G C FAlone, the ways I wanted to be loved
G C F CYou were not enough….
F CWhile your head was bowed and hands praying to God
Am FI was swinging from the chandeliers like some endangered animal
G C FSomewher? in New Orleans on the run
G C FLik? I just won the lottery, with God-knows-what inside of me
G C GHair a mess and shoelaces undone
G C FOf all the ways I wanted you
G C F CYou were not the one…..
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C F CWhile they were teaching you how Moses split the sea
Am G FI was in an airplane bathroom doing speedballs off the sink
G C FHigh as any angel moving at the speed of sound
G C FSomeplace over Germany, moving through the clouds
G C FWinking back at stewardesses, supplying me with ale
G C FBig-hooped golden earrings staying at the same hotel
G C FOf all the ways I wanted you to hold me
G C F CI could not be held….
C F CWhile you were waiting for the doctor in the chair
Am FI was stoned riding the cyclone at the Onslow County Fair
G C FThe stars above us sparkled like they didn’t pay the bill
G C FSmokes behind the haunted house, chugging stolen beers
G C FCotton candy kisses underneath the ferris wheel
G C FOf all the ways you wanted me to feel
G CI could never heal
C F CWhile you were waiting in the depot for the train
Am FI was asleep on stolen cargo in the back of someone’s plane
G C FHalfway back from Florida from Cuba in the rain
G C FLow enough to feel the water from the spraying waves
G C FUnderneath the radar hauling crates of pure *******
G C FHung over and laughing high above The Everglades
G C FOf all the ways I wanted to be tamed
G CI was just insane
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C F CWhile you were waiting in the lobby for your man
Am FI was working at the circus as a garbage man
G C FRemembering that winter you were in a long black coat
G C FI’m at home with the animals, knife at my own throat
G C FYou hear the bells of freedom, but the chains all just say “nope”
G C FIf I was the Titanic, you were pink clouds and blue smoke
G C FRising over Hemingway and in an old man’s fishing boat
G C FOf all the things I wanted you to be
G C FOf all the things I wish that you were now
G C F C F G C F C Am FYou were not around………………………
G C F CYou were not around…..
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