Elliott Murphy – Canaries In The Mind (Guitar)

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You say the world is doing fine

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Except for the canaries down in the mine

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they’re just not singing anymore

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They’re lying lifeless on the floor

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Some say love is like oxygen

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And since you left me I’ve been suffering

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Round and round like a weathervane I go

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And I can’t find which way the wind will blow

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In fact this whole thing is a mystery

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And I’m feeling less and less free

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Locked between the bars of my birth and my death

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What my crime was well I can only guess

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But you were the light in my darkness night

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I was blind when you gave me sight

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To see all that was beautiful

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My empty life so lush lush and full

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Oh your body was my temple of doom

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A sanctuary and a living tomb

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Where I was buried in two seconds flat

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I know you said sometimes love is like that

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But all I have left is a lock of your hair

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At least I think it’s yours but baby I don’t care

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I you gave me presents I can’t find them now

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You said you did but I got my doubts

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Because all you told me were sweet sweet lies

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I could have been one a thousand guys

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You could never get enough of you

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Who were so shocked when their time was through

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That’s it for me I’m on my way home

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I’m singing the last verse of like a Rolling Stone

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Rest assure I never wanted you to change

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Into something refined or prearranged

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Some say the world is doing fine

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And those canaries are done their time

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But I can’t hear them singing anymore

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I’m nearly lifeless on your floor