Chords for The Past Recedes

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_ _ _ [G] _ [D] Remember past [A]
receipts [Em] _ _ [G] _ [D] and I won't [A] be involved
_ _ [Em] _ [G] the effort to be free
_ [Em] _ _ [G] Seem [D] pointless from [Am] above
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You're [D] looking down [A] at me
[Em] _ _ _
[D] I'd rather [Am] stay below _ _ _
[G] Than have [D] you staring [A] up at me
[Em]
There's [G] _ [D] nowhere I want [Am] to go
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[Eb] This business of how [E] long we try _ [D] Stay alive
_ [C]
Why?
_ Be [Eb] here you [Em] first got to die
So [D] I gave it a try [C] and what do you [G] know?
Time was so [A] long ago
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_ [G] And [D] things come back [A] you see
[Em] _
_ [G] _ [D] Where they [Am] don't belong
[Em] And _ [G] _ [D] every drop of sea
[Em] _ _ [G] _ [D] is the [Am] old _
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_ To _ [C] _ _ _
the [Eb] _ greatest things about [Em] _ _
anything
[D] _ Everything _ _ [C]
I
_ _ _ [A] Figure of
[Em] _ God's speech [D] I'm out of reach.
Oh, [C] I can't play it [G] safe
But I might [Am] just in case
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_ _ _ [C] _ _ _ This [Eb] _ guy's
_ [Em] _ Reaching and [D] I'm working man.
[C] I don't
_ _ [Eb] Understand why clock out [Em]
John so slow
[D] _ Every time _
[C] _ Fine [G] I stay right
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_ _ [C] That's one line I [G]
stay right
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