Chords for My Back Pages

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_ _ _ Crimson [Cm] _ flames [Gm] tied through my ears, [Ab] rolling high [Bb] in mighty _ [Eb] traps. _
_ _ _ _ _ Pounds [Cm] with fire [Gm] on flaming _ roads, [Ab] using ideas _ [Bb] _ as my maps.
_ _ [Ab] We'll meet [Cm]
on edges, [Bb] soon [Eb] said I, [Cm] _ proud knees [Ab] heated _ [Bb] brow. _ _ _ _ _ _
[Eb] But I was so [Cm] much [Bb] older then, [Ab] I'm younger _ than [Eb] that _ now. _
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Half [Cm]-bred _ [Gm] prejudice, lit forth, [Ab] ripped [Bb] down on hair [Eb] I scream. _ _ _ _
[Cm] Lies that life [Gm] is hack and white, _ [Ab] spoke through my [Bb] skull I dream.
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Romantic facts _ [Gm] of _ musketeers, _ [Ab] _ foundations _ deep _ [Bb] _ _ somehow. _ _
_ But [Eb] I [Cm] was so [Gm] much [Cm] older then, [Bb] I'm younger [C] than [Eb] that now. _
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_ Girls' [Cm] faces form [Gm] the forward _ path [Ab] from phony _ _ [Bb] jealousy,
_ _ _ _ [Eb] to _ _ [Cm] _ memorizing [Gm] _ _
politics [Ab] of ancient [Bb] _ _
history.
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[Cm] Flung down by corpse [Gm] _
_ evangelists, _ _ [Ab] unthought of though [Bb] _ somehow. _ _ _
_ _ [Eb] But I was so [Ab] much [Eb] older then, [Ab] I'm [Bb] younger _ than [Eb] that now. _
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A self _ [Cm]-ordained _ [Gm] professor's tongue, _ [Ab] too serious [Bb] to fool.
_ _ _ _ [Eb] Spouting [Cm] _ out [Gm] that liberty _ is [Ab] just equality _ [Bb] in school.
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_ _ [Ab] Equality, _ [Gm] I spoke the word, [Eb] as if a [Bb] wedding vow.
_ _ _ [Eb] But I was so [Cm] much older _ then, _ _ I'm [Bb] younger than that [Eb] _ now.
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In a [Cm] soldier's stance, [Gm] I eat my hand at [Ab] the mongrel [Bb] _
dogs who preach.
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Fearing [Cm] not that I [Gm] become my enemy in [Ab] the minute _ that [Bb] I teach.
_ _ _ [Cm] My existence led by [Ab] _ confusion, [Eb] votes _ [Cm] _ mutinied [Gm] from [Bb] stern to _ bow.
_ [Eb] But I was [Cm] so much [Bb] older then, [Eb] I'm younger [Ab] than [Bb] that _ [Eb] now. _ _ _ _
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Yes, my [Cm] God stood hard [Gm] with abstract threats, _ [Ab]
too noble [G] to [Bb] _ neglect.
_ _ _ [Eb] Deceived me [Cm] into thinking _ [Gm] I had something _ to _ [C] protect. _ _ _
_ [Cm] Good and bad, [Eb] I define [Fm] these [Bb] terms _ _ [Eb] quite clear, no doubt, _ [Bb] _ _
somehow. _ _ _ _ _ _
But [Eb] I was [Cm] so [Ab] much _ older [Eb] then, _ I'm [Ab] younger than [Bb] that _ now.
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