Outside Looking In

OUTBDE  LOOKING IN (Mary Chapin Carpenter)
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[Actually in A; capo 2.]
[I'm unsure about the pre-chorus and
 bridge, where I've written
 F/A F/A Am Am.  It might in fact be
 Am Am F/A F/A.  Frankly, it
 sounds okay either way.  See which 
sounds best for you.]

G  F  Am  Am    G  F  Am  Am
[intro]

     G               D/F#   C/E  
Everywhere I see the signs, 
             C
pointing one direction
        G                 D/F#   
No more twists or crooked turns, 
C/E               C
leaving room for doubt
        G                D/F#     
Where I used to take the time for 
C/E             C
quiet and reflection
      G             D/F#     C/E 
Now I only hear the noise of what
          C
 I am without

           G                G     
I see them walking hand in hand, 
      C(9)/G             C(9)/G
and my eyes just want to linger
Continues after the ad
         G               G     
On those golden wedding bands, 
C(9)/G                C(9)/G
wrapped around their fingers
       F/A          F/A    Am    
By the time I turn away, I feel 
         Am
it once again
              G                
I'm back in this familiar 
D/F#   Am7           C
place, outside looking in

G  D/F#  Am7  C
[instrumental]

Baby, all the tears between us 
couldn't fill the spaces
And all the word we grasped at, they
 just fell away
I kept waiting on forgiveness to fix
 the broken places
But nothing even like it ever came 
my way

And tonight I drove around, and the 
street came up before me
I took a turn and then I found this 
old house coming toward me
I heard the sound a heart must make 
when a memory's caving in
Oh baby, what a hungry place, 
outside looking in

G  F  Am  Am    G  F  Am  Am
[instrumental]

         G               G         
It's the hardest kind of need that 
C(9)/G          C(9)/G
never knows a reason
       G             G            
Are we such a lonely breed, or 
  C(9)/G             C(9)/G
just born in a lonely season
      F/A               F/A    
Baby, it's all in the eyes, it's 
            Am           Am
where the reckoning begins
              F/A            F/A  
It's where we linger like a sigh, 
              Am                Am
it's where we long to be pulled in
              F/A              F/A  
      Am           Am(?)
It's where we learn to say goodbye 
without saying anything
          G                D/F#   
Standing on the borderline, 
    Am7      C
outside looking in

G  D/F#  Am7  C    G  D/F#  Am7  C
[instrumental; repeat and fade]