Chords for Joe Henry - You can't Fail me Now

_ [D] This is [C] a song that I wrote I scored a film last year with my friend Loudon Wainwright called knocked up _
I don't know how it did over here, but it made me a
Tremendous star in [D] America.
_ [G] _ _ [C] _ _ _ _
_ _ [G] _ _ I wrote this for her for loud, and he
_ took it home and played it for his wife and she wept [B] so [C] _ _
[G] that I recorded it [C] and
I need a little something back from you as well.
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_ I
Know that fan [A] is moving _
_ _ [Em] _ I
Can [G] see it in your hair.
[D] Ah, but I can't bear [F] to breathe it in [A] somehow _ _ _ _
I'll rise [Dm] and fall with you
[G] [F] Cuz you can't [C] fail me now
_ _ I'll rise [D] and fall with you
[F] Cuz you can't fail [C] me now
_ [G] _ _
[C] _ _ _ _ Salted [A] sweet upon my [Em] mouth
Dark rose [G] sparks against my house [D] the stain of love [F] is a _ smudge
[A] on my brow
_ But _ _ [D] you see through me [F] and you can't fail [C] me now
_ When _ _ [Dm] you see right through me, [F] you can't fail [C] me now
_ _ [G] _ _
_ _ [C] I've been off more [A] than I can chew _ [Em] It's
Something that [G] I tend to do [Dm] in your words [F] are what we need [A] and how
_ Are _ [D] you bite my tongue?
[F] Then you can't fail [C] me now _ I _
_ _ [D] _ Rent and [F] rail, but you can't fail [C] me now
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[G] I
[F] Lost the thread [G] among the vines
[C] that hung [Bm] myself [A] in _
[F] Storylines that tell the tales I never would [C] allow _ _ _ _
_ [F] God knows the [G] name of every bird
[C] that fills my [B] mind [A] like
[C#] Angry [D] words, but you know all my secret heart [G] vow
_ [Em] _ [G] _ _
_ _ [C] We're taught to love [Am] the worst of us
[Em] _ And mercy more [G] than life
But trust me [D] mercy's [Dm] just a [F] warning shot across the [Am] bow
I _ _
_ _ _ [D] _ live for yours
[F] _
Fail [C] me now _ _ _ _ I
[D] Live for your mercy
[F] _
You _ [C] _ _ _ _ [Em] _
can't [Am] fail me now _ [G] and _ _ _ [F] you can't fail me _ now
[G] _ _ [C] _ _
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_ [N] Thank you very much. _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ Thank you _ _