One Day Soon

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[Verse 1]
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If I could write you in a no-vel
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I'd por-tray you on a farm 
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somewhere in France
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I could diagram the sto-ry
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I could see that you escape
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I could dis-guise you and drive 
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you to the cape
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But I nev-er want to tell you why 
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all this hap-pened

[Verse 2]
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And if I could send you let-ters
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I would sculpt my words with 
insights
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From six cen-turies
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I could talk of my phil-o-sophy
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Watching stars out on the dock
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I could argue all the fin-er points
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 of Kant, Rous-seau and Locke

[Pre-Chorus]
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But I nev-er want to fear 
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any-thing that I say
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Nev-er want to stop you or keep 
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you from play
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And I nev-er never never never ever
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Want to run a-way
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From my own life

[Chorus]
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One day    (when there's fairer 
       C
weather)
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One day    (when you feel much 
better)
Am      Em
One day soon (when it's so much 
clearer)
Am      F
One day soon
N.C.
None of this'll matter

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[Verse 3]
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So if I brought you painted 
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flow-ers
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Could I take you to New Orleans for
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 the sum-mer
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I could read to you from Dickinson
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On her bat-tle with herself
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And complain about the heat there
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And ef-fects it has on health

[Pre-Chorus]
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But I'm nev-er gonna tell you
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How cra-zy you make me
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I'm nev-er gonna be what you wish 
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you were late-ly
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And I nev-er never never never ever
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Hope you feel this far

[Chorus]
        G                      
One day    (when there's fairer 
          C
weather)
        G
One day    (when you feel much 
better)
Am      Em
One day soon (when it's so much 
clearer)
Am      F
One day soon
N.C.
None of this'll matter

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[Bridge]
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Sleep-ing on the hammock

And wincing as the rain's beginning
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Writ-ing off the whole thing

Pretending that I never noticed
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Drift-ing in the aftermath

Afterwards it changes
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All the suf-fixes and subtleties

Binding me to latter statements
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Said in anger
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Said to strangers
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Stranger things have happened

[Chorus]
        G                      
One day    (when there's fairer 
       C
weather)
        G
One day    (when you feel much 
better)
Am      Em
One day soon (when it's so much 
clearer)
Am      F
One day soon

[Pre-Chorus]
      C
But I nev-er want to be the one you 
once re-gretted
      G
And I nev-er want to make you or 
take you for grant-ed
      C
And I nev-er want to learn it or we 
might for-get it
      G
And I nev-er never never never ever
                Am
Want to change this

[Chorus]
        Em
One day soon (when it's so much 
clearer)
Am      F
One day soon

[Other]
      C
But I nev-er want to be the one you 
once re-gretted
      G
And I nev-er want to make you or 
take you for grant-ed
      C
And I nev-er want to learn it or we 
might for-get it
      G
And I nev-er never never never ever
                Am     C
Want to change this