Running Down A Song

Intro
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Im a long way from home just running down a song 
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Im hellbent to write and its putting up a fight 
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The days they fly by and the dark takes its own sweet time 
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Cheap whiskey burns but the fire is how you learn 


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Some folks call it paying dues 
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I call it having nothing to lose but time 
         B 
You can waste it chasing guilt and pride 
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Or you can face it head on and sing your song until you die 

Inter

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You gotta try and walk the line for the man up in the sky 
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When the angel down below the only one fighting for your soul 
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Now the blood from your veins feels the love and the pain 
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Of the years being gone running down a song 



A 
Some folks call it paying dues 
A                            G         Em 
I call it having nothing to lose but time 
         B 
You can waste it chasing guilt and pride 
            D                   A                        Em 
Or you can face it head on and sing your song until you die 


Instrumental
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Well the miles add up but they dont pay 
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The bills fold up real nice but they dont stay 
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Rhymes come and go as they please 
                  
Like me I gotta ease on down the road babe 
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Theres a new sound calling 
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And my family name is like a tombstone chiseled in my brain 
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I was born outta phase going out in a blaze 
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So fill er up, bud a cup of Joe I gotta go 



A 
Some folks call it paying dues 
A                                   G         Em 
Hell, I call it having nothing to lose but time 
         B 
You can waste it chasing guilt and pride 
            D                   A                        Em 
Or you can face it head on and sing your song until you die 


Outro 
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Yeah, until you die