Chords for Jackson Square (MN Original)

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_ _ _ _ [F#] _ Dust cloud coming [G#m] off an old dirt road that leads up here [F#] to this little graveyard.
_ Seven [G#m] lights in a perfect row.
Under [C#] each [F#] light is a police car.
Just because you say it [G#m] doesn't make it true.
[C#] You can say that I'm [F#] guilty, man, I just don't care.
You can [G#m] burn my body black.
Just [C#] don't make me go [F#] back to Jackson Square. _ _ _ _
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_ _ _ I met you [G#m] on Decatur Street [C#] with your little bare feet [F#] and your violin.
I was walking by with [G#m] my guitar in my hand.
[C#] You smiled at [F#] me and I jumped right in.
_ Before I knew it, [G#m] you were all I knew.
[C#] Every moment [F#] together was an answered prayer.
After a while, we [G#m] had some money saved up [C#] and we rented a [F#] room over Jackson Square.
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_ _ _ And one day, [G#m]
everything changed.
Your [C#] eyes got strange, [F#] you didn't seem yourself.
You'd go to tell a story [G#m] and you'd start out fine.
[C#] Halfway through [F#] it, you'd be somewhere else.
And I started having [G#m] the strangest dream.
[C#] I held a string [F#] and looked up in the air.
You were glowing [G#m] with the strangest light, drifting out [C#] of sight [F#]
over Jackson Square.
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_ _ _ _ Life is [G#m] something that you can't control.
When [C#] you try to hold on [F#] to it, it makes you let go.
Things are [G#m] not like they were before.
[C#] I can hear her [F#] crying through the bathroom door.
She says she hears [G#m] spirits all around the room.
[C#] And they're telling her things [F#] that make her feel scared.
I've no [G#m] idea what to do.
We're [C#] both in over our [F#] heads on Jackson Square.
Good God! _
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_ I woke [G#m] up with a weight on my [C#] chest.
People were [F#] screaming on the street below.
_ I reached for you, I [G#m] was alone in the bed.
[C#] Wind was blowing [F#] through an open window.
_ And suddenly, [G#m] I was very old, [C#] in a little boat, [F#] absolutely _ nowhere.
Staring at the [G#m] side of the universe and [C#] your tiny [F#] body down on Jackson Square.
And don't tell me [G#] that there ain't no [C#] end.
That damn well [F#] is, and it waits in the wings.
I see you kneeling [G#] there at center stage, in your tiny cage, [F#] made of angel _ wings.
While I'm here, [G#] every night, [C#]
loading my gun [F#] and trying not to go there.
_ _ Anyone who [G#] says that life is clear [C#] has never seen a mirror or [F#] been to Jackson Square.
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yeah, _ _ _ _ [G#m] yeah, _ _ _ [C#] _ _ oh.
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[A#m] _ _ [F] _ _ [A#] Minnesota Original is made possible by the State Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund
and the citizens [F] of Minnesota. _ _
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