One For The Catholic Girls

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[Intro]
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[Verse]
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      I was drunk, I didn't let on
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As I stood before your door at dawn
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I guess I might have awaken the dogs
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Because the shadows started 
       D
coughing them out


G                 C             G
      So I put my hands into my hair
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And I pulled and let it hurt
            C              
There was a light going out 
     G
somewhere
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Thought I can hear through the wood

G          C                G
      That held the house together
     C                       G
That kept me out here in the cold
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I knew the sun was going to change 
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the weather
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But I was looking she never would 
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show

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I was jamming my hands in my pockets
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And I was thinking about throwing a
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 stone
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But if I had the courage I knew 
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that I lost it
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I was too scared        to walk 
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myself home

[Interlude]
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[Verse]
G        C                     G
      So lit out on a concrete rail
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And I made my way through the dead 
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park
        C                     
I could still here the cicadas 
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wailing
       C                          
As the morning fog rolled off the 
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dark

G               C                 
      I had the whole night in my 
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lungs
      C                        G
I was breathing so hard and so fast
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I scored one for the catholic girls
      C                          D
And I tried to stuff it all in a box

G                  C             
      You know the kind that 
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comes with a key
           C                       
You can it throw in the lake or 
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bury somewhere
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I thought about the kid you knew 
        G
before me
    C                            
And how he held onto that lock of 
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your hair

G                C               
      He kept it tied up in a sad
        G
 rubber band
         C                         
In his dresser drawer on the right 
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side
              C                    
Now he walks around with strands of
         G
 you all over him
   C                              
As if you were still spending the 
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night

      C                       D
I was jamming my hands in my pockets
              C           D
I swear I was zero at the bones
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If I felt my courage making a come 
back
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I was drunk             I didn't 
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let on

[Interlude]
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[Verse]
G                  C             
      'Cause I was doing like my 
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pa had always done
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I was trying to rise back from the 
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dead
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Saying all those ghost prayers 
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before the storm
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Hoping God won't hit me over the 
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head

G                   C      
      I guess I was out for a 
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revelation
      C                     
I was kicking out agaist the 
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darkness
      C                 G
I had dew all over my body
                C               D
From sleeping in a ball under a park
 bench

         C                       D
I was so sure I would never make it
                   C            
I remember like it happened only 
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yesterday
             C                     
I don't know why I'm still holding 
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onto it
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Don't hearts break         nearly 
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every other day

[Interlude]
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[Verse]
G              C            
      When you try to make the 
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sweetness last
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'Cause everything happens so fast
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And your waiting with half dry eyes
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For something to fall          or 
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something to rise