John Hiatt ACL 1993 Straight Outta Time Chords

[D] [A] I'd like to do this song and dedicate it to a gal that when [N] I was 15 she was 18
And _ _ I had I had it going on for her big time, and she wouldn't have anything to do with me
her name was Marilyn _ and
She was into Donovan and stuff like that _ I
Didn't quite fit the bill, but _ I really it was my first love totally unrequited
She wound up running off with my best friend
At the time Jim who later suffered _ _ _ _
Acid damage basically _ LSD so I figure he got his
_ But but I on the other hand I can hold a grudge
_ _ [D] _ I'm gonna [N] send this out to miss Marilyn wherever she might be this evening
And just just to say take this opportunity on television say Marilyn you don't know what you missed gal _ _ _ _ _
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Who's a hot [D] summer night?
_ Was counting all the starlight [G] on your skin _ _ _ _
[D] And then time _ I watched you breathe and [G] I'm breathing me
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[D] by the lake
_ So humid that the moon was [G] getting away _ _ _
[D] Or I'll say _ all the crickets started me in a [G] _ castanet
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[D] like a gypsy
_ You broke me from a [G] child into a man _ _ _
[D] And never hit me I've been running ever since [G] I took a stain
_ [C] And [D] is love like a Spanish mouse [G] hanging from a tree
_ _ _ Just [A] _ swaying in the breeze
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like a sweet [G] memory _ running straight
[D] _ _ Straight _ _ _ [C] [G] out _ _ _ Straight _ _
[D] _ _ _ _ _ _ [C] Straight [G] up
_ _ _ Since you [D] were mine _ _ _ _ _
[G] _ _ _ _ _ _ I'd [D] autumn chill
_ In a shiver girl.
It shook us [G] to the bone _ _ _ _ [D] and was still
_ I bet you were reposing [G] on the telephone
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[D] spring fall
_ Would it find us with our lips [G] frozen blue? _ _ _ _ _ _
[D] _ _ Look
Do we really live the time we're [G] running _ through?
_ [C] _ more [D] like a dream
Do we let it die and drift [G] away to sleep?
_ _ _ [D] Or let it stream _ like an echo in the history [G] books you keep
_ [C] Cuz _ [D] it's
Running _ from the [G] corners of my mind _ _ _
[A] We're looking back
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Like a river
_ _ [G] Running _ [D] straight _ _ _ _ Straight
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[G] _ _ I _ _ _ [D] scream _ _ _ Straight
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[G] _ _ _ _ _ _ I'm [A] gonna straight out of time
Just like an old man spittle looking for the dance gonna [G] meet [D] me in the middle
[A] I'm never gonna figure the way that I feel [Em] I'm running straight out of time
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_ _ But this love [D] still _ real _ _ _ _ _
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[D] _ see you're looking pretty in your [G] summer dress
Can _ _ [D] almost feel you as you clutch a little [G] locket to your breast _ _ _
Looking down at [D] the picture girl, [G] you know, you're looking fine _ _ _ _
Is [D] it me?
_ Was I ever in your heart [G] or on your mind
_ _ Cuz [D] I'm running out of time
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running [D] straight out of time _
_ _ [G] _ _ _ Will you ever mind? _ _ _ _ _ _
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