Chords for A Song To Pass The Time

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_ _ _ _ _ There's a middle-aged woman, [F#] she's dragging her feet
[E] She carries baskets of clothes to a _ laundromat While the Mexican children kick rocks into
the street And they laugh in a language [F#] I don't understand
But I [A]
love them, why do [E] I love them?
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_ So the neighborhood's damning, [B] I smoke on the porch
[E] Watch the [F#] people as they're passing clothes inside their cars
[E] And on their faces just anger [F#] or disappointment [E] I start wishing there was something [B] I could
offer them A [A] consolation, what could [E] I offer them?
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_ _ And they are sad in their [F#] suburbs, robots water the lawn
[E] And everything they touch gets [F#] dusted spotless And [E] so they start to believe they've not [F#] touched
anything at all [E] And the cars in the driveway [F#] only multiply
Well they [E] are lost in their houses, I've [F#] heard them sing in the shower
[E] Making speeches to their sister [F#] on the telephone [E] Saying you come home when we come here
Don't [F#] stay so far away from me [G#m] This weather has me wanting love [B] more tangible
Something I [A] can hold, cause it's [E] getting cold
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_ [E] _ _ I [F#] say hold [E] up our fists [Bm] to the flame [A] in the sky
[C#] To block [E] out the light [Bm] that's reaching [A] for our eyes
Cause it, cause it [E] would blind [Em] us
[A] _ _ Yeah [E] it would blind _ _ _ _ _
I've locked my [F#] actions in the grooves of routine So I may never be free of this apathy
[E] But I wait for a letter [F#] that's coming to me She sends me [E] pictures of the ocean [F#] in an envelope
So there [E] still is hope, yes I can be healed [F#] There's someone looking for what I've concealed
In my secret [G#m] drawer, in my pockets [F#] deep He will find my reasons that I can't sleep
He will still [A] want me, oh he still [E] wants me, _ [A] _ _ oh he [E] still wants me
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_ _ [F#m] Well I said [E] come for the week, you [Bm] can sleep [A] in my bed
[F#m] And pass [B] through my life like a dream [A] through my head
It will, it will [E] be easy, _ [A] I'll _ [E] make it easy
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_ _ _ _ _ _ But all I [B] have for the moment is a [Bm] song to pass the [F#] time
That melody to keep me from worrying
Or [B] some simple progression to keep [F#] my fingers busy
And words that are sure to come back to me
And they'll [A] be laughing, and they'll [E] be laughing
_ _ [A] _ _ My [E] _
mediocrity
_ [A] _ _ My [E]
mediocrity
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_ _ _ [A] _ _ They'll [E] be laughing
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