John Hiatt- Making of "Damn This Town" Chords

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_ _ [C] _ _ [A] [Em] The whole process [F#] of writing a song for me is, it's not even work, I mean it's just what I do.
So, you know, I don't, [F] it's not like I, [Em] well honey, go on to the office, you know, it's
just whatever's going, it's just a musical thing that I do, you know, I sit down and play.
And then something comes up, hopefully.
[Em] They _ _ _ _ _
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_ [E] _ _ killed my brother in a [Em] poker game, damn [C] this town [D] I'm [E] leaving.
I think Flannery O'Connor said [Em] that it's, it's, _ fiction expands the possibilities, you
know, [E] it's always open to interpretation, but [B] the narrative in the song for me is [Em] this
guy, this guy's obviously [C] twisted and he's got, [D]
you know, he has a, he's blaming everything
and everybody for his troubles, as we often will do, as I often have done in my life.
And the idea of blaming your town for your woes, and then he sets off naming his whole
family as [F] being a problem, but, you know, there's a [Em] hint in the first verse that in
fact, he, he was, he was no saint himself.
And then by the end of it, you know, you can make what you want to of what the guy's really
talking about, because he could be crazy or God only knows what happens by the end.
But I think it was, for me, it was sort of just kind of dealing with that, that the idea
of holding resentments for years and how they can just burn holes in a person and make you
crazy and how you just never know what the guy next door is really up to, you know, kind of thing.
_ So I think it was sort of about that. _
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