Drenched Chords by Calexico

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_ _ _ _ _ _ Right through [F] the nostalgia, _ [Eb] shaking _ memories [D] by the mile.
The [Dm] _ [Gm] city lights are [C] closing [A] in on [F] him, [C] and [Eb] the distance grows [C] [D] shorter.
_ [Dm] [Gm] For a little while. _
_ _ _ _ [F] _ [Bb] _ Still he wonders _ [Eb] what dreams [Bb] fill her heart.
_ _ _ _ _ And wonders [Eb] if what they have [Bb] [Cm] could ever be [F] _ sparked.
[Eb] The roads _ [Gm] never lead _ [Eb] where they're supposed to [F] [Dm] go.
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_ [G] That's what [F] he [Bb] tells himself before [Dm] _ _ [G] he lets it [Gm] go. _ _
_ _ _ _ Out on the cold [F] gray plain, _ _ [Eb] _ sunken on the [Dm] side of the road.
The _ [Gm] _ words [F] bleed off the page.
The [Eb] letter _ comes well [Dm] so.
_ _ _ [Gm] No more turning [Am] backwards, he says, [Eb] as he drives on [C] [Dm] off in the rain.
_ _ [Gm] Ventures on up [Dm] through the call of the rattles [Gm] and settled thunder.
[Dm] The raw _ [G] pines [Gm] stakes claim. _
_ _ _ _ _ [Bb] _ He wonders [Eb] what dreams [Bb] fill the heart.
_ _ _ _ _ _ And wonders [Eb] if what they have _ [Cm] could ever _ [F] be sparked.
_ [Eb] The roads never [Gm] lead where [Eb] they're supposed to [F] go.
_ _ _ _ They just [Bb] twist round and [Eb] round _ [Bb] the same. _ _ _ _ _
_ _ The eyes [Eb] close in on [D] him.
[Cm] The heart [F] retains a [Eb] _ _ bit of the [Gm] spark. _
[Eb] Before _ it [F] fades away. _
_ _ _ [G] That's the way [Bb] he gets lost.
_ _ [D] He [F] drifts [G] off alone.
_ [Gm] _ _ [G] And [F] what he [Bb] tells himself.
_ _ _ _ [G] _ [Dm] Better let [Gm] it go. _ _ _ _ _ _ _
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