Alleyway

C                 Cmaj7          
Smoke against the windowpane, 
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just the semis breathing on the 
interstate
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A gray upon the graying of October
C              Cmaj7           F
Hey honey it’s been so long, i got 
so lost, so far down
    Am                E      
The tracks of an old abandoned 
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rollercoaster
        Am                      
See the wheels fell off, and the 
 E                F
rails all rusted over

[Verse]
C          Cmaj7                  
I remember you that night, in the 
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noisy bar, in the yellow light
    Am        E              
The radiating heat between our 
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shoulders
C                      Cmaj7     
And i know good things never 
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last, yeah i know that now but i 
didn’t then
      Am              E           
And i let you lead me blind around
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 the corner

[Chorus]
    E                         
But sometimes still at night i 
           Am
dream, an empty bottle in the 
alleyway
     C                G           
On a night so clear a billion 
      Am
stars are born
    E                              
And each one is a world i guess, of
 Am
 dust and flame and wishes cast
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By lovers hoping love will last til
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 morning

[Instrumental]
C C Am E F

[Verse]
   C                Cmaj7         
We tried a while to make it good, 
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you hid the cans, i played the fool
    Am               E            
You got some work, i got sick in 
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the mornings
        C                     
But you lost that job, and we got 
Cmaj7
kicked out
    F
Hey babe, ain’t nothing to cry about
        Am                   E    
And you said you’d send some cash 
         F
from california

[Chorus]
    E                         
But sometimes still at night i 
           Am
dream, an empty bottle in the 
alleyway
     C                G           
On a night so clear a billion 
      Am
stars are born
    E                              
And each one is a world i guess, of
 Am
 dust and flame and wishes cast
   F                               
By lovers hoping love will last til
 G
 morning

[Instrumental]
C C Am E F

[Bridge]
    Am          G                
Now i got work, down the street, 
C                     F
cleaning rooms at the super 8
    Am                G           
Sometimes i take the path home by 
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the river
      Am              G        
And i wonder what our daughter’s 
          C                F
like, i hope that family treats her 
right
    Am                F       
And gives her all the things we 
           G
couldn’t give her

[Instrumental]
C C Am E F

[Verse]
      C                   Cmaj7   
Now a dream is all that’s left of 
       F
you, i guess some folks are born to 
lose
     Am                E     
Some kids are born for someone 
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else’s cradle
        C             Cmaj7       
And the days go by, i get along, 
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the air grows cool and the leaves 
fall
        Am                 E   
And the smoke it moves and fades 
              F
against the window