Chords for Johnnie Taylor - Running Out of Lies

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