Chords for Rob Thomas - 3 am (Acoustic) 4-5-14

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_ [E] This to me counts as the first song [G] that I ever wrote that I liked.
[N] If you're writing songs, you write a lot of songs that aren't very good.
And I still do, I feel like I'm writing a new solo [Em] record right now.
I write like 10 songs, and then I write one, [F] then I write another 10, then I write one.
This is very special to me.
When I was 12 years old, my mother [C#] was going through cancer,
and it [Cm] there's a lot that happens when you're 12 years old and you're dealing
with that kind of a thing and you're the sole [G] responsibility she was a single mom
I was [D#] there I was kind of taking care of her and it makes you kind of age a lot
quicker than you have to age and so when I when I got a little older when I was
about 19 [C#] or 20 I wrote this [C] song and this is the first song that I ever wrote
that I thought other people should hear [N] as well
_ She [G] _ [C] _ _
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_ [D] _ _ _ [C] said it's cold outside
She [G] loves me in my raincoat
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[C] She's always worried about things [Em] [G] like that
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[G] _ [D] _ _ _ [C] She said it's all gonna end
And it might as [G] well be my fault
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[G] _ _ [C] _ _ [D] She only [G] sleeps when [C] it's raining
_ [Em] And she [D] screams
_ But [C] her voice is straining
And [Em] she says
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This [C] pre-alarm must [Em] be lonely
[D] She _
[Em] _ _ _ [C] _ _ [G] says baby
[D] _ [Em] And _ [C] I can't help but be [Em] scared of it all _ [D] Sometimes
[C] But the rain's gonna wash away
I [G] believe in you
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[G] _ _ [C] _ _ [G] Forever _ _
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[D] _ _ _ [G] She's [C] got a little bit of something
God it's [G] better than nothing _ _ _ _
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[G] And in her color [C] portrait world
She [Em] believes that she's got it all
_ [G] Going on
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_ _ [D] _ _ [G] She swears [C] the moon don't hang
As quiet as [G] high as it used [C] to _
_ [G] _ _ _ [C] _ [D] She only sleeps [G] when [C] it's raining
And [G] she [D] screams
_ Until [C] her voice is straining
And [Em] she says
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[Em] _ [C] This pre-alarm must [G] be lonely
[D] She [Em] _ _ _ [C] _ _
[Em] says baby
_ [D] _ _ [Em] _ And [C] I can't help but be [Em] scared of it all _ [D] Sometimes
[C] But the rain's gonna wash [G] away
I [C] believe [Em] in _ [G] us
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[G] _ _ [C] God help [G] me I believe
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[D] _ _ _ [C] She believes her life
Is made up of [G] all that she's used [C] to _ _
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[Em] And the clock on her wall
Has been stuck at three
For [G] days and days _ _ _
She _ _ [D] _ _ _ _
[C] thinks that happiness
Is [Em] a map that sits [G] on her doorway
_ But _ [C] _ _ _ _ [D] outside
_ It's [C] stopped raining _
She _ _ _ _ _ [G]
says baby
[D] If [Em] _ it's three [C] AM
I must [G] be lonely
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_ _ [C] _ [G] She says baby
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[Em] _ And I can't [C] help but be [Em] scared of it all _ [D] Sometimes
But the rain is [C] gone _ _
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