Chords for Isn't That What Friends Are For

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[A] _ Heavy northern autumn sky, _
[E] _ _ [Em] mist hung forest, _ dark spruce, bright maple, _
[D] _ _ _ and the great lake
rolling forever to the narrow gray beach.
[A] I [E] look _ _ [Em] _ _ _
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[D] _ _ west along the red road of the frail sun to where it hovers between shelf of cloud
and [Em] spiky trees _ receding shore. _
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[D] _ _ The world is full of seasons of anguish, of laughter, [Em] _ and it comes to mind to write you [B] this.
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[D] _ _ _ Nothing is sure, [A] _ _ _ nothing is pure, [Em] _ _ _ and no matter who we think we [F#] are, _ everybody gets a chance to be.
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[D] _ _ Love's supposed to heal, but it [A] breaks my heart to feel the pain in your [Em] voice. _ _ _ _ _
But you know, it's all going [D] somewhere, _ _ and I would crush my heart and throw it in the
street [E] if I could pay for your choice. _ _ _ _ _
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[A] _ _ Isn't that [B] what friends [E] are for?
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_ _ Isn't that what [Em] friends are for?
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_ We're the insect life of paradise, [Em] _ _ crawl across leaf or among towering blades of grass, _ [E] glimpse
only [D] sometimes the amazing breadth of heaven. _
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[Bm] _ You're [D] as loved as you were before the strangeness swept through our bodies, our houses, _
[Em] our streets. _ _ _
_ _ _ [Em] _ When we [G] could speak without codes [D] and lights swirled around like windblown petals, _ [B] I've
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[D] _ _ been scraping little shavings off my ration of light and I formed it into a ball and [Em] each
time I pack a bit more onto it. _ _
_ _ _ And I make a bowl of my hands and [D] I scoop it from its secret cache under a loose board
in the floor.
And I blow across it and I send it [E] to you against those [Em] moments when the darkness blows
under your door. _ _ _ _
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_ [A] _ _ Isn't that what friends [Em] are for?
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[A] _ _ _ Isn't that what friends [Em] are for? _ _ _
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[A] _ _ _ Isn't that what [Em] friends are for?
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