Between The Dirt And Sky Chords by Jeff Lang

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_ _ _ _ _ They always prey [A] on women [D] like her, yeah. _
_ _ _ [G] They read self [A]-doubt in the way she _ walks. _ _
[G] You suckered her [D] in with a hollow kind word, _ _ _ _
[G] saying I just love the [A] soft way that you talk.
_ _ [D] _ You won't leave, he'd scream, how could you? _ _
_ _ _ _ [G] They replayed the [A] same bloodless fight.
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[G] it hadn't seemed long till the joy [D] had left them, _ _ _ _
[A#] the [D] dark long silence and the dead _ night.
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_ _ They were going [A] for a meal [D] with her sister. _ _ _ _ _
[G] They'd been fighting before [A] leaving _ home.
_ _ [G] And he struck her so hard that his palm [D] had _ _ _ blistered.
_ _ [G] Swiped makeup, [A] couldn't hide the bruises on her bones. _ _
_ [D] She left the [A] restaurant table without warning. _ _ _ _
[G] It was not like her [A] to make a fuss,
_ _ _ [G] saying you'll not see me [D] tomorrow _ morning. _
_ _ _ [Gm] From [D] taking the next Brisbane _ bus, _ _
[Gm] yeah, I'm [D] leaving on the next Brisbane _ bus. _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ There's vultures waiting [A] on [D] nights like _ these
_ _ _ [G] for a woman to leave [A] on her own. _ _
_ [G] A car pulled up beside [D] her near a dark row of trees. _ _
[Gm] The [A] clouds were [D] thick and the night wind _ _ _ _ [A#] groaned.
The [D] clouds were thick and the night wind groaned. _
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_ _ [C#] And my body [B] lay broken, _ [G] _ naked and _ alone.
_ [D] _ _ And the crows pecked out my _ _ eyes.
_ _ [C#] And the flesh _ fell [E] _ _ _ [G] _ off my _ _ _ _ [D] bones. _
I watched it all between the dirt and the sky.
_ _ [A#] Yeah, I [G] watched it [D] all between the dirt and the sky.
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[C#] _ And [Bm] the _ [Bm] officers _ [D] came [G] to drag him from her _ _ [D] home
_ _ with cuffs around his _ wrists.
_ _ [B] _ [B] And our neighbours [F#m] saw [D] him [G] get let off the _ _ _ [D] loan, _
_ standing with their hands in _ fists.
_ Yeah, [A#] he was [A] let off, they watched [D] with their hands in _ _ fists. _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ They all [A] cried out, [D] how could you? _ _ _ _
_ [G] Well, they knew he was looking [A] for me that night.
_ _ _ [G] They watched his pleas come out of [D] the TV. _
_ _ _ _ And they _ disbelieved [A] the tears that he cried. _ _
[D] But I see him [A] squatting in that [D] cold cell. _ _ _
[G] Yeah, I watched it all [A] between the dirt and the sky.
_ [G] Took a random act to curse [D] him to hell. _ _
_ _ And a stranger done took both our _ lives.
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[D] Stranger, [D] he took both our _ _ lives.
[Gm] He _ [A] took [D] _ both our _ _ lives. _ _ _ _ _ _ _
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