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Dm
If you're keeping score then you're bound to win,
Bb Bbsus2
A birds eye view of a burning bridge,
Dm
You've gone through ghost towns set on pause,
Bb Bbsus2
Hoping the risk was worth a cause,
Dm
Oh, sound off the false alarm,
Bb A
Oh, Oh
Dm Em Bb Gm
But I'll make my own colleague from wood and from ivory,
F C Dm
And reap the rewards of proximity,
Dm Em Bb Gm
I'll assemble my equal from what I lack and require,
F C Dm
And gather what's left unaccompanied,
Gm Dm
It smells like disaster,
F Dm
It looks like a trap,
Gm Dm
So go by the wayside,
D# A
And never look back,
Dm
If you could spare me forty winks,
Bb Bbsus2
While you cry wolf and I count sheep,
Dm
What good old ghosts in Kevlar vests,
Bb Bbsus2
With backbones like a jellyfish,
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Dm
Oh, stomp on your land again,
Bb A
Oh, Oh
Dm Em Bb Gm
But I'll make my own colleague from wood and from ivory,
F C Dm
And reap the rewards of proximity,
Dm Em Bb Gm
I'll assemble my equal from what I lack and require,
F C Dm
And gather what's left unaccompanied,
Gm Dm
It smells like disaster,
F Dm
It looks like a trap,
Gm Dm
So go by the wayside,
D# A
And never look back,
Dm
If you're keeping score then you're bound to win,
Bb Bbsus2
A ring side seat at the main event,
Dm
Oh, stomp on your land again,
Bb A
Oh, Oh
Gm Dm
It smells like disaster,
F Dm
It looks like a trap,
Gm Dm
So go by the wayside,
F Dm
And never look back.
Gm Dm
It smells like disaster,
F Dm
Thank God I can smell,
Gm Dm
So go by the wayside,
D# A Dm
And never look back.
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Enjoy!
- Nelson
