Chords for Shadows On a Dime

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_ [A] _ _ _ [Am] This window makes a perfect [A] frame, but New England leaves like [Am] painted [Dm] rain.
They hold me as I hold this [Am] train, all shadows [F] on a dime.
[Am] You move forward fast by holding back.
You gauge your steps and you don't look [Dm] slack.
Yeah, I'm looking [Am] back, we're down the track to see us dreamers in our prime.
[E] _ I [Am] poured my soul in Santa [E] Cruz.
I ached [Am] all night, next day I lost my [F] shoes.
It's so optional [Dm] what you may or may not [E] lose.
In this pattern we [Am] call time. _ _
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_ _ [Am] _ Fifteen years ago I worked the line, with a thousand more all due in [D] time.
While [Dm] a foreman smiled, complicit [Am] crime, we were strangers to [F] the plan. _
_ [Am] An old, old woman ran the gear, she couldn't move.
They said she'd been there forty years, I [Dm] think that's rude.
Cause [Am] forty years is forty years, and I was only fifteen then.
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And the [Am] work waits to roar upon our [E] backs.
And we [Am] gauged our steps and we didn't [F] look slack.
And one day the [Dm] old woman didn't come [E] back.
I couldn't work so well [Am] and they let me go.
_ [E] But I don't forget [Am] about the [E] factory.
I [Am] don't expect this ride to [F] always be.
Can I give [Dm] you what you wanna [D] see?
[E] Will we do it one [Am] more time?
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_ _ _ _ _ _ Ten years have worn this guitar down.
It's ivory whites are now mustard brown.
[Dm] It's face bears [Am] cracks from every town.
Still it resonates [F] with age.
[Am] Where would I be without its ring?
Who would I be if I didn't sing?
[Dm] For half a [Am] chance you'd spare nothing.
A tethered bird to a tethered cage.
_ [E] _ I sing to [Am] you to feel the dream.
[E] I call [Am] to you though it's a muted [F] scream.
We're one on one [D] projected beams.
_ [E] Translucent future, be [Am] our sage. _
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_ _ _ Five years have blazed since you warmed my side.
She is my gift I've loved and cried.
[Dm] With her level look she [Am] is my guide.
A spirit on the wing.
_ Our love has jostled like this train.
Or like the moon to wax and wane.
[Dm] But to know [A] somebody worth the strain.
[Am] I have one gift to bring.
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I cry for [Am] her then I let her go.
I let her down.
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She let [Am] me go and then we came [F] around.
And I felt us new [Dm] and I felt the ground.
[E] And I felt [Am] myself believing. _ _ _ _ _
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[A] _ _ And [Am] now a tired conductor passes by.
He takes my ticket with a sigh.
[Dm] I don't think [Am] he meant to catch my eye.
But he doesn't turn away. _
He says I am a daughter as old as you.
And there's really nothing anyone else can [Dm] do.
Do you [Am] play guitar?
Well good for you.
May I play the violin?
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I imagine [Am] him with his hair jet [E] black.
Does he [Am] hide his fiddle in the back?
He gazed his words [Dm] as the train [D] went slack.
[E] The New York train [Am] stops here.
[A] _ [E] And I don't [Am] forget about the factory.
[E] _ I don't [Am] expect this ride to always [F] be.
Can I give [Dm] them what they want to see?
[E] Let me do it twice the second time [Am] for me. _ _
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[Am] Cause these windows make a perfect frame.
For New York buildings like upright [Dm] trains.
They hold me [Am] as I hold the rain.
All shadows on [F] a dime.
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