Intro: D D D D
Verse:
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a dustland fairytale beginning,
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just another white trash county kiss.
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In 'Sixty-One, long brown hair and foolish eyes.
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He looked just like you'd want him to
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some kind of slick chrome American prince.
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a blue jean serenade, Moon River, what you do to me.
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But I don't believe you.
Chorus:
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Saw Cinderella in a party dress but
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she was looking for a nightgown.
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I saw the devil wrapping up his hands,
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he's getting ready for the showdown.
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I saw the minute that I turned away,
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I got my money on a palm tonight.
Verse:
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The change came in disguise of
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revelation set his soul on fire.
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She says she always knew he'd come around.
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And the decades disappear like sinking
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ships that we persevere.
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God gives us hope, but we still fear,
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we don't know, the mind is poison.
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Castles in the sky sit stranded, vandalised.
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The drawBridge is closing.
Chorus:
D D Gmaj7
Saw Cinderella in a party dress but
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she was looking for a nightgown.
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I saw the devil wrapping up his hands,
D
he's getting ready for the showdown.
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I saw the ending when they turned the page,
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I threw my money and I ran away.
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Straight to the valley of the great divide.
Bridge:
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Out where the dreams all hide,
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out where the wind don't blow.
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Out here the good girls die,
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and the sky won't snow.
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Out here the bird don't sing,
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out here the field don't grow.
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Out here the bell don't ring,
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out here the bell don't ring.
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Out here the good girls die.
Outro:
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Now Cinderella don't you go to sleep,
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it's such a bitter form of refuge.
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Oh don't you know the kingdom's under siege?
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And everybody needs you.
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Is there still magic in the midnight sun?
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Or did you leave it back in 'Sixty-One?
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In the cadence of a young man's eyes,
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and where the dreams roll high.