The Grand Old Reason

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While the grand old reason
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Pulls out its tether
Em
While you lay black and blue
Em
Under the weather
C
The dark tries light
C
Dips its toe in the water
D
And faith means death
D
Time's cruel younger daughter

G
And you sing songs of the rhyme and 
the reason
Em
Press your weary face to the glass 
of the season
C
With hope on your breath
C
And a prayer in the evening
D
Well, if you believe
D
I believe you'll be leaving

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     Em           D           
But you much like I, don't know 
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where
         C          Em
When we die we will go
       D                G
So we cling, desperate fingers
      C
Onto life
           Em              D
And we'll all miss you to death
         C
When you go

G
All the crow lands wild
G
On the lung of our youth
Em
While the rain beats hard
Em
On the slates of the roof
C
Where you just try to sleep
C
In a haze of medication
D
On New Year's Eve
D
Through the sound of elation

G
In the bastard's home is a hospital 
bed
Em
Where the life drains so gladly from
 your greying head
C
Oh, I'm so broken down that I can 
not be made
D
I'm just so fucking sorry that you 
are afraid
          Em             D        
But like you, I have tried for so 
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long
        C
Not to cry
        Em.                   D   
That I don't even know if I can 
        C
when you die
          Em           D
But I'm sure as damn hell
            C
I'm gonna try
           Em           D
Oh, I am sure as damn hell
       C
Gonna try