One Step Closer To Home Chords by The Alarm

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Back [C#] in 75, [G#] when a kid was on the line, [D#m] and he felt no pain, cause [F#] there was none.
He [C#] would bend in the wind, [G#] take in anything, [D#m] like sniffing roses.
_ And it [F#] was all right, until [D#m] he fell and cut his [G#]
hand.
He just [F#] could not _ [A#m] understand.
_ He'd run [D#m] away, [C#] blame pretense, [F#] burn three [D#] bands, or [G#] blame innocence.
[Fm] _
So that's all right, [F] the harder [F#] it pines, I'm one [C#] step _ closer [G#] to home.
_ [D#m] _ The deeper [F#] it bites, I'm one [C#] step closer to [G#] home.
_ [D#m] And you can tie my [F#] hands, or whip [C#] my back, I [F#] can't give in, till the [C#] sky turns black, I may [F#] get lost.
I'm one [G#] step closer [F#] to _ home.
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Yeah, [C#] he ran, hitched [G#] rides, traveled light, left [D#m] his bags behind, so [F#] steady lost there.
He [C#] said, that's okay, I [G#] give money to smile, [D#m] from place to place, [F#] and they don't mind.
I [D#m] pack the heads of _ [G#] businessmen, and [F#] I just keep that right [A#m] back hookah head.
[D#m] No need [C#] for devise, [F#]
[Gm] disguise, [G#] or put a compromise.
_ So that's all right, the tougher [F#] it gets, I'm one step [C#] _ closer to [G#] _ _ _
[D#m] home.
The more that [F#] I sweat, I'm one [C#] step closer [G#] to home. _
[D#m] _ And you can tie my [F#] hands, or whip my [C#] back, I can't [F#] give in, till the sky [C#] turns black, I may get [F#] lost.
I'm one [G#] step closer to [A#m] home. _
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_ _ _ _ _ _ There ain't no need for this at all [C#] at all.
Surely you could help me, I'd [D#m] say, I know a lot of people [Fm] just like you.
[F#] Ready to live [A#m] for, and nothing to [C#] lose.
So turn it all [G#] down, smash it up, _ break it [C#] all down, and [G#] then just stop.
Spit [C#] it out.
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_ _ _ Spit it out.
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_ _ _ _ _ _ And [C] the [C#] tougher it [A#] gets, and the more [G#] that I sweat, and the [C#] harder it breaks, [D#] and the deeper [F#] it breaks.
I'm one step [C#] closer _ [G#] to home. _
[D#m] _ _ _ _ [F#] _ I'm one [C#] step closer [G#] to home.
[D#m]
And you can tie [F#] my hands, or [C#] whip my back, _ I [F#] can't give in, till the sky [C#] turns black, I may [F#] get lost.
I'm one [G#] step closer [C#] to home. _ _ _
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