Here On The Ground

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Outside the door are the empty, the 
poor
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Are the lives that are living no 
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more
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Some of them grievers or broken 
believers
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Or used in some meaningless war
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Go see for yourself if you think 
it'll help
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But I just cannot go there no more
            C           Bb        
Oh Lord, I will not go outside the
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 door
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Down on the street there's a rhythm,
 a beat
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You get caught up, you'll never get
  F  C
 free
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A humming of heat to a strumming of 
feet
    Bb                       F  C
You forget who you wanted to be
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And under the madness an echoing 
sadness
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That whispers you'll never be free
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Oh Lord, I will not go down on the
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 street
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Out into the city, the gruesome, the
 gritty
      Bb                   F  C
The lovers, livers and lonely
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Away from my eyes in the thick fog, 
the cries
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Of the bleeding, broken and 
F  C
breaking
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Your name there is nothing, the 
  C
street signs are bluffing
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        Dm                      Bb
They'll put you wherever they please
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Oh Lord, I will not go into the city
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I’m already jaded
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Already I'm faded
         Dm                      Bb
There's nothing to learn or to know
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Oh Lord, I will not go
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Under the bridge there, the shadowy 
ridge there
     Bb                       F  C
That hides and is keeping us hid
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Where nothing is growing nor 
sunlight is showing
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Or shining on all that we did
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And the rumble of cars that goes 
  C
bellowing past
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They're just running away with the 
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wind
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Oh Lord, I will not go under the 
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bridge
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Out into the battle, they lead you 
like cattle
     Bb                       F  C
And even they got their own laws
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You won’t be locked up there, nor 
shot or shocked up there
     Bb                      F  C
For shooting a man to the floor
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They train you and break you, and 
  C
re-educate you
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But won’t tell you why or what for
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Oh Lord, I will not go into the 
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war
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Up into the sky where the great 
engines fly
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Where they throw you and roll you 
        F  C
like dice
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We've conquered the moon with 
explosions and fumes
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We have conquered the universe 
  C
high
   Bb                          
But looking back down there's a 
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reasoning sound
          Dm                Bb
That says nobody gets out alive
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Oh Lord, I will not go into sky
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There's no one around
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Just the beckoning sound
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And there's no room to dream or to 
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grow
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Oh Lord, I will not go       (I
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 will not go)
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Here on the ground we are lost, we 
are found
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We are lonely, we're spinning 
F  C
around
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Away from the crowds and the armies 
of clowns
     Bb                    F  C
Away from the carnival sounds
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And out of the deep where the 
 C
tectonic sleeps
     Dm                      Bb
And darkness will follow you down
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Oh Lord, just let me stay here on 
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the ground