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[Verse]
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I left Wichita on a cracked western road
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For Missouri and all of her caverns
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To hide like an outlaw from what I have heard
          Bb             F      C             F
There are some things in life I don't want to learn

    Bb       F        C           Dm     Bb
But I am not Lewis or Clark; I am only a man
         F           C
Who gets lost in his questions like
Bb           F              C          Dm
"€œWhy doesn't love heal when we need it most?€"
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Will somebody give me the answer I need?

[Chorus]
    Dm        Bb        C                      Dm
I'd sing hallelujah, if I could recall what it means
         Bb       C
And just who I am praising
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I don't think that I can express it in words
   Dm        Bb     C         F
So I let the melody do all my speaking

[Verse]
Bb          F          C          Dm
Just when I think I am safe and secure
             Bb        F          C
There's that haunting again in my conscience
    Bb           F          C        Dm
The ticking, the tapping of cold memory
       Bb       F            C          F
Like a steel radiator that's run out of steam

      Bb          F           C              Dm
We're pushin' and pullin', we hold ourselves down
Bb F               C
It starts with the small things
   Bb          F         C          Dm           Bb
So I will keep trying to become the man that you need
    F            C            F
And remember you taught me to sing

[Chorus]
        Dm        Bb        C                      Dm
And I'd sing hallelujah, if I could recall what it means
         Bb       C
And just who I am praising
  Dm               Bb      C           Dm
I don't think that I can express it in words
   Dm        Bb     C         F
So I let the melody do all my speaking

[Bridge]
F             Dm
Take what you need
      Bb           F
Don't take any more
    F             Dm
Oh, take what you need
      Bb       F
Don't take any more

[Chorus]
    Dm        Bb        C                      Dm
I'd sing hallelujah, if I could recall what it means
         Bb       C
And just who I am praising
  Dm               Bb      C           Dm
I don't think that I can express it in words
   Dm        Bb     C         F
So I let the melody do all my speaking