Cold Night In Santa Fe

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[Verse 1]
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   Maybe I should just keep actin'
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 like nothin's wrong
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   Or maybe that's a damn fool's 
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way of just holdin' on
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To some wasted little thing that 
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anybody else would see is wrong
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Just like an old man tellin' the 
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same joke everyday
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It ain't the 
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knowin'-that-it's-over, it's the 
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watchin'-it-slippin'-away


[Verse 2]
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    I wonder if the birds'll ever 
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sing the way they used to do
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    When will this empty pillow 
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next to me not be a lonesome view?
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    I wanna hear a different 
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melody, but there just ain't 
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nothin' new
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It's the same old song that keeps 
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me shackled here in this bed
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    It ain't the 
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what-you-think-is-comin', it's the 
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sad truth it isn't here


[Chorus]
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It doesn't matter if I still 
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remember
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That cold night down in Santa Fe
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Where you told me all your lonely 
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secrets
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And I swore I'd never give 'em away
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I bought you a necklace down in the
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 market
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You got me that old pawnshop guitar
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You read me my first love song the 
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whole way back home in the car


[Verse 3]
Am D Am D

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    Sometimes I wonder if I made 
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this whole thing up in my head
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Just like a kid in his room afraid
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 of what he'll find in dark
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But when I turn on the light I can 
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see it's really fallin' apart
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It's fallin' apart
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It's fallin' apart
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Yeah, I'm fallin' apart
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