Chords for Mark Heard - 8 - Can't See The Light - Ashes And Light (1984)

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_ [C#m] _ _ [E] Billy is a man who [C#] let care slip from his [E] clutch _ _
[C#] Stares _ _ [E] _ with the eyes [C#m] of a man who's
seen too _ much _ [C#m] His _ [A] _ capital's [G#m] gone, his [F#m] dues are unpaid
His heart is [E] surrounded with a [F#m] barricade He knows you don't need to be _ [F#m] conscientious
[E] at a [B] _ _ _
_ masquerade [E] And he _ can't see light
Keeps his eyes shut tight In search [C#m] of a myth
His world [A] is [F#m] no one [B] _ else _ _ But [E] he can find peace in this _ _ society
_ That would [C#m] deport him [B] for his _ [E] _ naturalized _ [C#m] _ _ _ [E] _ _ _ _
_ [C#m] _ _ [E] _ world _ _
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Billy [C#m] _ _ _ _ _ walks around with [C#m] a callous on his [E] brain _
_ [C#m] _ _ [E] _ _ Partly a result of [C#] overuse, partly [E] a lack of the same
[C#] _ _ [E] _ _ [A] Truth is a [E] subject like [F#m] a hand grenade [A] And God is a phantom [F#m] on some prosaic page
[A] Anything suggested [F#m] is detested and evades [B] like the spell of a submarine
_ And [E] he can't see light Keeps his eyes shut tight
In search [C#m] of a myth [A] His world is no one [B] _ else
_ _ _ But [E] he can find peace in this _ society _ That would [C#m] deport _ _ [B] him for his _ [E] _ _
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_ Billy wears his secrecy [E] like a glove _ [G#m] _ _ _ [C#] _ _ [E] Slips away [C#] at the fear's slightest twinge
[E] Of gentle _ [C#m] love [E] He says [A] he didn't [E] acquire his [F#m] scars and veins
That there's [A] a clear association [F#m] between love and pain
But [A] he wishes he could [E] just look up [F#m] at the stars and [B] feel loved again
[C#] _ _ [B] _ [E] And he can't see light _ Keeps his eyes shut tight
In [C#m] search of a myth His world [A] is no [B] one else _ _
_ _ _ _ [E] But he can find peace in this _ _ _ society That would [C#m] deport him
[B] _ And embrace him and make him feel at home in this _ [E] nonchalant _
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