- Gerry Rafferty/Mark Knopfler: The Way It Always Starts Chords

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_ [B] It gets so dark [E] before the dawn
_ _ That's _ _ when it gets to me before the city [A] symphony of _
[C#] taxicoms
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That's the way it always _ starts
[F#m] Sitting here and waiting [B] on the beating _ [A] of my _ [B] heart
_ _ _ Last night I thought I [E] heard my name
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[E] Well, it was too dark to see
But it had to be the [A] voice was just [C#] the same
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_ _ [B] _ That's the way it always starts
[F#m] Sitting here and waiting [B] on the beating _ of [A] my _ [E] heart _
So tell me why should it have to [B] [E] be this way?
Why [F#m] can't it [E] be?
Why [F#m] can't I [E] sleep at night?
Why should it have to [B] be [E]
this way?
Why [F#m] must there [E] be this price [A] to pay?
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_ _ [E] _ _ _ _ [B] all the streets are [E] darkened there _ _ _
Oh if you can live in this town
Stick around you [A] can live anywhere
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_ _ [B] _ That's the way it always _ starts
[F#m] Sitting here and waiting [B] on the beating
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