Chords for Richard Shindell - State of the union

_ Here's a new [Gm] song
_ [C] _ Played the other night.
I'll play it again
This _ _ _ [D] _ _
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[A] _ _ _ _ [Am] _ _ _ _
_ [E] is called State of the Union
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That nice easy mark
[F] at the [C] edge of the park
Slam dunk if ever I've seen [D] one.
[Am] I don't know what happened.
[F] I just let it go [C] by I
[F] Guess [G] maybe out of [Am] respect _ _ _ _ _ _
This [C] old town is my home, [F] and I'm not so [C] far gone, but I don't feel like anyone else
_ [G] _ _ [Am] Didn't seem right [F] to answer [C] wrong [F] I decided [D] to get me some [Am] help
_ If [F] not now then when [G] I was asking [Am] myself
_ [C] Over and [G] over again
Make [Am] it right [C] get free get rid of [D] the chum I
_ _ Heard it can happen [Am] that way
_ _ _ _ _ I went down to the [C] clinic on 110
_ [F] Got on [C] the methadone
[G] Program [Am] and I waited on [C] line
every [F] morning at night
for that little white [G] cup
by [Am] the creek
_ _ _ _ _ It was going okay.
I [F] was feeling all [C] right.
[F] I [C] even got back [F] with my daughter
[G] _ [Am] I lost a few friends [F] who were anything [C] but [F] I just took it one day
[Am] I _ _ [F] was _ _ _ [Am] asking myself
_ [F] Oh
[C] _ [G] again
_ _ [Am] Make it right get free get rid [D] of the chum
[F] They [G] say it can happen [Am] that way
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[Am] _ _ [F] _ _ _ _ [Am] And I can't [C] say for sure how it all fell apart
[F] One thing [C] just meant [F] to another
_ [Am] Next thing I [C] knew I [F] was stolen a [C] car.
I [F] am [D] straight up to the [Am] Bronx _ _ _ _ _ _
What's the lost [C] the old touch [F] cuz I ran through a [C] toll they caught me just up
_ _ [G] _ [Am] Sporting all the [C] remain of my newfound resolve [Am] sure [G] that said it why
[Am] _ _ Some [F] shred of my soul
[G] Could almost [Am] believe that the Lord [C] sent those [G] cruisers free
_ [Am] Make it right get free
Get [A] rid of the chum
[G] I've heard it can happen that [Am] way _ _ _ _ _ _
at the halfway [C] house
[F] We're sitting [C] around watching the state _ _ _ _ _
Stone [F] right back [C] up the hill [F] watch out for the [Am] shit coming down _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ Grinning [C] that grin
They gave me some kind of John [G] Wayne
And we're shouting
Cheering [F] all this talk [C] about shooting
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_ [Am] _ _ _ _ [F] _ I'm [G] asking myself
[Am] _ _ [C] Over and over [G] again
Make it right [C] get free [F] get rid [D] of but _ _ [F] [G] it don't always happen [Am] that way _ _ _ _ _ _
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