Every Time

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[Verse]
    G
Well some people they claim
                                 C
They never had a fair roll of the 
dice
               D
They could be right
     G
But that's not me, see I was lucky
And just had everything fall in my 
C
plate
                      D
Call it fate if you want to
  C                                
But for all the elaborate setup and
   D
 maneuver
         Em                   
Being wheeled into position to 
    Dm
deliver some saccharine
  C                       A7
Punch to the guts of a world 
screaming out
 D
For whatever the hell they think it 
is that I've got


[Chorus]
  G
Every time I was given a chance
                   C
To stand on my own two feet
     D
Oh I fell, yah
  G
And every time I was given a chance
                    C
To stand on my own two feet
     D
Oh I fell, yah
 G
And every time opportunity knocks on
 my door
          C                        
I just send it on straight down to 
Cm
hell
G                               
'cause every time I was given a 
Em
chance
    D          C          D      Em
To stand on my own two feet I fell


[Verse]
  G
Well some people they imagine
                               C
The disappointment must tear me 
apart
           D
Break my heart
   G
And presume I'm disgusted
                         C
By all the injustice I've seen
                           D
But that's not me and I tell you
   C                         D
I bear no resentment to millionaire 
pop singers
  Em                         E
Barely literate poets and guitar 
stock gunslingers
     C
And I smile so politely
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At the well-meaning ignorance
D
Of the people who tell me I'm gonna 
make it someday


[Chorus]
  G
Every time I was given a chance
                   C
To stand on my own two feet
     D
Oh I fell, yah
  G
And every time I was given a chance
                    C
To stand on my own two feet
     D
Oh I fell, yah
 G
And every time opportunity knocks on
 my door
          C                        
I just send it on straight down to 
Cm
hell
G                               
'cause every time I was given a 
Em
chance
    D          C          D      Em
To stand on my own two feet I fell

[Instrumental]
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[Verse]
 G
Well the sun's going down on what's 
left of today
 C                               
And the tide drags what's left of 
              D
this moment away
  G
And so I kick through the dirt and 
the red autumn leaves
  C                                
What I had and what I lost and what
            D
 I still believe
  G
And I have no regrets for the time 
that I spent
  C                             
Barely paying my dues and barely 
           D
paying the rent
 G
For a simple pursuit of more honest 
a life
 C                              
Yah I don't cheat on my taxes, I 
        D
don't cheat on my wife
 G
Now the fire's burning out and the 
walls closing in
 C                               D
And I'm dragged by the gravity into 
the sin
 G
Of obedient service of some twisted 
machine
 C                                 
Blowing smoke in our faces of each 
D
little scene
 G
Set to form a distraction just to 
buy up some time
 C                                 
Misdirected by swagger and beaten by
D
 rhyme
 G
Telling tales of a life you might 
one day attain
 C                         
If you just keep your focus 
             D
relentlessly trained
 G
On the things you can get and not 
who you can be
 C                                 
No the innocent dream of the sky 
  D
and the sea
 G
And the word and the truth and the 
spirit of man
 C                                 
And a history that promises one day
  D
 we can
 G
With a love for your brother and 
your sister and yourself
 C                                 
Get there one day together in good 
    D
cheer and good health
 G
But it comes at a cost, yah there's 
a price that you pay
 C                                 
For a sweet bowl tomorrow you gotta
     D
 give up today
 G                            Em
It's a sacrifice way beyond mortals 
like me
       C                           
For an age that never was and never
 D
 could ever be
 G
So I don't dwell on the past, I 
don't rue my mistakes
 C                            
And I'm proud that I never had 
            D
whatever it takes
 G
Now I'm stood on the deck of this 
leaky old boat
 C                                 
With just a shirt on my back and a 
   D
song in my throat
 G                                 
And I'm the luckiest boy on the 
         Em
face of the earth
 C                               D
'Cause I know about love and I know 
what it's worth
 G                              Em
So I'm not giving up, and I'm not 
giving in
 C                                 
Though I know it's a fight that I'm
 D
 not gonna win
  G
And I still scream in the face of 
more powerful men:

I choose this, motherfucker, and I 
choose it again!


[Chorus]
  G
Every time I was given a chance
                   C
To stand on my own two feet
     D
Oh I fell, yah
  G
And every time I was given a chance
                    C
To stand on my own two feet
     D
Oh I fell, yah
 G
And every time opportunity knocks on
 my door
          C                        
I just send it on straight down to 
Cm
hell
G                               
'cause every time I was given a 
Em          D          C        D
chance to stand on my own two feet
G                               
Yah every time I was given a 
Em          D          C        D
chance to stand on my own two feet
G                               
Oh, every time I was given a 
Em          D       C      D
chance to stand on my own two feet I
 fell