The Mess Inside Chords by The Mountain Goats

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_ _ _ _ Took a weekend, drove to Provo.
_ _ _ [C] Snow was white and fluffy.
_ _ [G] _ _ A weekend in Utah won't fix what's wrong with us.
_ [C] The gray sky was vast and real cryptic above me.
[D] I wanted you _ _ [C] to love me like you used to do.
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_ _ _ _ _ We took two weeks in the Bahamas.
_ _ _ [C] _ Went out dancing every night.
_ _ [G] _ _ Tried to fight the creeping sense of dread with temporal things.
[C] _ Most of the time I guess [D] I felt alright.
But [C] I wanted [D] you to _ [G] love me like you used [C] to do.
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But you cannot run and _ [C] _
you cannot hide
from [G] _ _
the wreck we've made of our house
and _ from the mess [D] inside.
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We went down to New Orleans one [C] _ _
weekend in the spring.
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Looked hard for what we'd lost.
_ [C] It was painful to admit it, [A] but we couldn't find a thing.
I wanted [D] you to [G] love me like you used to [C] do.
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_ _ _ _ _ We went to New York City in September.
_ _ [C] Took the train out of Manhattan to the Grand Army Stop.
Found that bench we'd sat together on a thousand years ago.
When [C] I felt such love for you [D] I thought my heart was gonna pop.
[C] I wanted [D] you to [G] love me like you [C] used to do.
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[D] _ _ _ _ [G] _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ But I cannot run and [C] _ _ I cannot hide
_ [G] _ from the wreck we've made of our house
and [C] from the mess _
[D] inside.
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