Chords for Johnnie Taylor - Running Out Of Lies

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_ _ _ _ [C#m] I'm tired [E] of _ lying, _ _ _ _ _ _
[A] peeping and _ _ _ hiding _ _ in [B] _
[E] low class _ places. _
_ _ _ _ Oh, I'm [A] so tired of lying. _ _
_ _ _ [B] I'm tired of _ _ _ [E] worrying _ _ _ _ [A] whenever I come home late _ _ _
_ _ with [C#m] your [E]
lipstick traces. _ _ _
_ _ _ [G] Oh, yes [A] I am. _ _ _ _
_ You _ [C#m] can rest _ assured my woman's no fool.
[F#m] _
She can tell I've been loving you.
_ [C#m] _
Stealing your love is getting harder and harder.
[A] The excuses I've been giving _ [B] just won't hold water. _
I'm running out [C#m] of _ [B] lies, lies, [E] _
lies.
It's [A] getting hard to think of an _ alibi.
_ [C#m] Running out of lies, [B] _ _ [E] lies, lies.
_ It's [A] getting hard to think of an alibi.
_ [C#m] You _ [F#m] _ _ _ [A] _
say [B] _ _ _ [E] _
goodbye. _ _ _ _ _
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_ _ _ _ I've got [B] too many _ [E] eyes to find. _ _ _ _
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I'm _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ [E] spreading myself.
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_ I'm spreading [A] myself a little too thin. _ _ _ _
_ _ [C#m] Trying to do [E] the _ job _ _ _ _ _ of too [A] _
many men. _ _ _ _
_ You can [C#m] rest _ assured my _ woman's no fool.
She [F#m] can tell just as good I've been _ loving you.
_ [C#m] _ Stealing your love is getting harder and harder.
[A] The excuses I've been giving [B] just won't hold water. _ _ _
I'm running [C#m] out of _ _
[B] lies, lies, [E] lies.
_ It's getting [A] hard to think of an _ [A] alibi.
[C#m] Running out of lies, [B] _ _ _ [E] _
lies, lies.
[A] It's getting hard to think of an _ alibi.
My [E] woman ain't no fool, y'all. _ _ _ _
_ She [A] can tell _ _ just _ [B] as good when I've been out with [E] somebody else.
[Bm] _ _ You know a lot of [E] times _ I don't want to [A] talk about it.
_ _ _ I try _ to get it off of [Bm] my mind.
[C#m] _ _ But [E] then my conscience, you know everybody's got a [A] conscience. _
_ My conscience gets to bother me.
_ And when I [E] try to go to sleep at night,
_ _ it seems like to me I can hear my conscience say,
Shame, shame, shame, shame. _ _ _
_ You ought to be ashamed of yourself.
_ You know you've got a good woman.
And you're the true [A] life.
_ _ _ [Em] And I made a deal with my conscience [E] that my conscience didn't bother me.
_ _ I said I sure wouldn't bother my conscience, but [A] every night, man,
[Em] _ _ _ they come around to me and [E] tell me,
Shame, shame, shame, shame.
You _ [C#m] _
_ know you've been [A] wrong.
Yes, you have.
A lot of fellas out there have been wrong.
You ought to go to your [E] baby and tell her, honey, _ _ _ _ _
_ _ I'm [A] sorry _ _ for _ _ taking you through all of these [E] changes. _
_ I'm sorry. _
_ [G#] _ _ _ [A] _ _
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_ I'm sorry that [C#m] I did you [B] wrong.
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I'm sorry to broke your [A] heart, baby.
_ And it seems like to me I'm running out of [C#m] _
love.
[B] _ _ _ [E] _ _
_ _ [G#m] It's [A] getting _ [F#m] hard to think [A] of another _ _ _ life. _
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