I've Heard That Tearstained Monologue You Do There By the Door Before You Go
John Hartford (Self-Titled Album)
Chords thanks to: Patrick Nance emswife at attbi.com
[Intro]
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[Verse]
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Sometimes I get the feeling I've passed this way one time in life before
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Like the rerun of some movie I've seen a thousand Saturdays ago
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I know exactly what your gonna say before it happens in each scene
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And I find myself rehearsing for that blackout situation
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Where the punchline reaches out and punches me
[Chorus]
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I always play the same part; the good guy gets the girl, I wind up dead.
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Who rides into the sunset when the credits start to roll and flash upon the
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screen inside my head
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The show is done, the lights go up, I throw my empty popcorn box away
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Go back to unreality on rubber legs, I walk into the day
[Bridge]
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Life is never logical, the faces change, the lines all stay the same
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I know the cues where I came in, the exits but I can't recall your name
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So save your breath, don't tell me how it all comes out, somehow I think I know
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I've heard that tear stained monologue you do there by the door before you go.
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What makes me take you by the hand and stand around in line one time again
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Just to see the same old madness.. well, I ask you ain't this the place where I came in?
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So save your breath, don't tell me how it all come out, somehow I think I know
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I've heard that tear stained monologue you do there by the door before you go.
[Outro]
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