True Story

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Rolled on out of Motown back in '91

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Left them bitter winters for the 
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Florida summer sun

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Breakin' hearts in theme parks

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          D7
        G (riff)
Smiled for anyone who held a camera 
to my face and said "Say cheese!"


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Wound up on the telly With a 
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twinkle in my eye

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Twinkle disappeared the night I 
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started gettin' high

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And everything seemed so absurd

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Until the night I finally heard 
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the sound of Coltrane

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It brought me to my knees



CHORUS
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There's a long drive straight 
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through the night

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Starin' out the window Lookin' for 
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the first signs of daylight

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Just hold on tight With all of your 
might

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See it takes the time it takes to 
       G (riff)
get it right



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So I peddled across the country 
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Wound up here in Hollywood

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Left my high school sweetheart 
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when I realized I could

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She became a movie star

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D7               G (riff)
I've took to sleepin' in my car 
Still singin' songs about her to 
this day


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Drove myself to New York City 
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Chasin' love again

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She moved me to tears and then I 
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wound up movin' in

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That Apple got the best of me

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D7           G (riff)
So I packed up the rest of me And I 
grabbed a cab, said "Straight to 
JFK!"



CHORUS
          D                  
There's a long drive straight 
             C
through the night

                G                  
Starin' out the window Lookin' for 
    D7
the first signs of daylight

     G                  C
Just hold on tight With all of your 
might

       G                 D7       
See it takes the time it takes to 
       G (riff)
get it right



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Now I'm back in Hollywood This 
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guitar in my hand

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These days I'm only using words 
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that I can understand

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Singin' songs, I'll carry on

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      G        D7
            G (riff)
Keep at it until I'm dead and gone 
Then maybe my gravestone will say



CHORUS
          D                  
There's a long drive straight 
             C
through the night

                G                  
Starin' out the window Lookin' for 
    D7
the first signs of daylight

     G                  C
Just hold on tight With all of your 
might

       G                 D7       
See it takes the time it takes to 
       G (riff)
get it right

       G                 D7       
See it takes the time it takes to 
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get it right (Third time's the 
charm)

            G                 D7  
They say it takes the time it 
            G (riff)
takes to get it right