Elliott Smith – Big Problem (Ukulele)

Capo 5
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The problem I have with the soul contraption

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Swallowed up slowly like a bad reaction

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All around what you do and say

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Well the symptom falls further away

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You live in silence but you can't describe it

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So what's the point of talking at all?

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The store bought injury.. the family cane

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Just another boy bad at the game

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This is when you need a friend to keep you moving around

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'Cause all your thinking has made you slow

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You might be stopping out.. you know

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Frustrated fireworks inside your head

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There's a lit fuse smoking.. you caught instead

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What you're dealing.. but it's just a start

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Was a time since your problem was a poison dart

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And you act like a cowboy.. whatever's in my hat

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I'm a hardboiled hero and I'm not so bad

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But I didn't know when to run from this

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A proud fan is gonna see you shatter

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I know that there really isn't anything the matter

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Nothing is gonna be crying words..

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They only want their voice to be heard

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They use it sometimes to show that they're around

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Or they build you up a theory like the walls of a town

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A tired and ancient ruler right now..

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The neighborhood slaves are hardly skilled

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Open your parachute and drop your weight

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Float on down to the center and investigate

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I did my self requirement

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Better cop out hard or I'll leave right now

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'Cause this feeling of loving I felt it in my chest

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Like the nighttime footsteps of an unknown guest

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I know it wasn't me.. I wasn't moving..

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I felt thunder.. the rain was pouring

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I know it must be something wrong all this is restoring

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You don't have to live in a life's mistake

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Stay in the center and wait

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Stay in the center and wait

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Stay in the center and wait.