Be Calm

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As I walk through the streets of my
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 new city
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my back feeling much better, I 
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suppose
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I've reclaimed the use of my 
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imagination
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for better or for worse, I've yet 
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to know
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but I always knew you'd be the 
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one to understand me,
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I guess that's why it took so long 
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to get things right.
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Suddenly I'm lost
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On my street

On my block
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Oh why, Oh why
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Oh why haven't you been there for 
me?
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Can't you see, I'm losing my mind 
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this time?
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This time it's for real, I can see

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All the trees are turning red
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The beggars near bodegas grin at me
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I think they want something
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I close my eyes, I tell myself to
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 breathe

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and be calm.

Be calm.
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I know you feel like you are 
          B
breaking down.
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Well I know that it gets so hard 
sometimes.
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Be calm.

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I'm scared that everyone is out to 
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get me.
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"These days before you speak to me 
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you pause."
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"I always see you looking out your
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 window."
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"After all, you lost your band, you
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 left your mom."
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Now every single crack, every pain 
that I pass,
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says I should either leave or pick 
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it up
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But with every single buck I've made
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I'm saddled with bad luck that came
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the moment I was baptized
or when I found out one day I'm 
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gonna die
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if only I could find my people or
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 my place in life
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then when they come to 'carolin'
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so loud, so bright, the theremin
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will lead us to a chorus
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where we'll all rejoice and sing
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 a song that goes:

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Oh be calm.

Be calm.
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I know you feel like you are 
          B
breaking down.
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I know that it gets so hard 
      E
sometimes,
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Be calm.
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Take it from me, I've been there a 
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thousand times.
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You hate your pulse because it 
thinks you're still alive
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and e-very--thing's wrong
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It just gets so hard sometimes
   F#
Be calm.

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I don't remember much that night,
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Just walking, thinking fondly of 
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you
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Thinking how the worst is yet to 
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come
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From that street corner came a song
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And I can't remember the man,
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The panhandler or his melody.
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The words exchanged had far 
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exceeded any change I'd given thee.

      B
Oh be calm.

Be calm.
           E                
I know you feel like you are 
          B
breaking down.
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I know that it gets so hard 
      E
sometimes,
   F#
Be calm.
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Take it from me, I've been there a 
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thousand times.
              G#m
You hate your pulse because it 
thinks you're still alive
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and e-very--thing's wrong
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It just gets so hard sometimes
   F#
Be calm.
   G#m
Be calm.


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