Static On The Radio

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[Verse 1]
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Three A.M. I'm awakened
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By a sweet summer rain
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Distant howling of a passing 
Gm
Southbound coal train
Dm
Was I dreaming
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Or was there someone just lying here
 Beside me in this bed?
Dm
Am I hearing things?
        Bb
Or in the next room
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Did a long forgotten music box just 
start playing?

[Pre-Chorus]
      Gm         C                
And I know it's a sin putting 
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words in the mouths of the dead
      Gm        C              
And I know it's a crime to weave 
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your wishes into what they said
      Gm       C                  
And I know only fools venture 
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where them spirits tread
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Cause I know every word, every 
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sound bouncing 'round my head

[Chorus]
          Gm
Is just static on the radio
   Bb
static on the radio
          Gm
Is just static on the radio
   Bb
static on the radio
          Gm
Is just static on the radio
            Bb                   F
Everything I think I know is just 
static on the radio
           Gm
Is just static on the radio
            Bb                   F
Everything I think I know is just 
static on the radio

[Bridge]
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[Verse 2]
Bb Eb   Dm
Midnight rendevous
             Bb
With a pretty girl
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Wearing a torn and tear-stained gown
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Like a ghost ship she appeared from
 Bb
 nowhere
           Gm                     
On a lonely highway and flagged me 
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down
            Dm                   
I gave her a lift downtown to the 
    Bb
Greyhound station
         Gm                   Bb
Under the flicker of the neon light
   Dm
She kissed me goodbye
          Bb                   Gm 
And in the mirror of her eyes I 
             Bb
saw my own reflection

[Pre-chorus]
A      Gm     C                  
And I know the blind will sometimes 
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lead the blind
      Gm          C               
And I know through shadowlands and 
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troubled times
      G        C                 
And I know forsaking love, we see 
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it's a sign
       Gm    C                 
And I know of truths forever hid 
    F
behind

[Chorus]
          Gm
Is just static on the radio
   Bb
static on the radio
          Gm
Is just static on the radio
   Bb
static on the radio
          Gm
Is just static on the radio
            Bb                   F
Everything I think I know is just 
static on the radio
           Gm
Is just static on the radio
            Bb                   F
Everything I think I know is just 
static on the radio

[Verse 3]
Dm
Now there's a church house
       Bb
About a stone's throw down
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From this place where I been staying
               Dm
It's Sunday morning
           Bb
And I'm sittin' in my truck
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Listening to my neighbor sing
   Dm                       Bb
Ten years ago I might have joined in
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But don't time change those inclined
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To think less of what is written
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Than what's wrote between the lines?

[Pre-Chorus]
         Gm C                     
Cause I know dreams are for those 
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who are asleep in bed
         Gm      C                
And I know it's a sin putting 
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words in the mouths of the dead
         Gm               C       
Cause I know for all my 
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ruminations I can't change a thing
         Gm         C         
Still I hope there's others out 
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there who are listening

[Other]
                     Gm
To the static on the radio
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Static on the radio
              Gm
Static on the radio
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Everything I think I know is just 
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static on the radio
                Gm
Static on the radio
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Ain't praying for miracles, I'm 
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just down on my knees
                Gm
Static on the radio
                  Bb         
Listening for the song behind 
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everything I think I know
               Gm
Static on the radio
                      Bb         
Everything I think I know is just 
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static on the radio
Gm                    Bb         
Everything I think I know is just
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 static on the radio

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