Some Slender Rest

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And I’m a go make my bed
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Tuck in the other side
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These confessions are mine
                      C
But I’ll not claim a word

C
This restless parade
                     F
Yes I watched it go by
                          C
Through the cracks in my palm
                G
Seen them all gone
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Some sequence of lives

C
Well she calls out alone
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With the pain in her voice
                   C
It’s the wound of betrayal
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It’s the weapon of choice

                      C
Left her heart on display
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Though that she’ll deny
                C
Two tattoos of skin
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One of ice one of tin
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For the days have gone by

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   Am        F            C
But I ain’t one to reminisce
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But close my heart and clench my 
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fists

                      C
Now the days swiftly pass
                        F
With the chest full of fear
                      C
Here the minutes are hours
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But the moments are years


                       C
And old acquaintances passed
              F
In trios, in pairs
                         C
And if they stay or they go
                  G
One struggles to know
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One struggles to care

    Am       F               C
But out beyond the Ten Tree walls
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The wind blows hard the highway 
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crawls

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And if you should pass the James 
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Hotel
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Please stop in for I knew you well
     Am      F          C
But that was oh so long ago
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And I never learned how to let go
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                            C
But when you fear your own faults
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And you’re sick of this life
                         C
When you’re reckless of hand
                   G
And trembling the knife
                           C
And all your doors prefer locks
                        F
And your death prefers spoons
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Why wouldn’t you wait one last 
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laugh at fate
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Forever’s too soon

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But across the field death bell 
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knells
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Listen close hear the toll tell

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To run and tell my darling true
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My breath is short
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My days are few
    Am         G
So please come down
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And take my hand
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My last demand
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And lead me to some slender rest
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And please dismiss what I confess