Josh Ritter – New Lover (Guitar)

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I can't pretend that all is well, it's like I'm haunted by a ghost

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There are times I cannot speak your name for the catchin' in my throat,

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There are things I will not sing for the sting of sour notes.

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I feel like a miser, I feel low and mean

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For accusing you of stealin' what I offered you for free.

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Still it baffles the belief sometimes what thieves we lovers be.

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I don't know who you're with these days, might be with someone new

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And if you are, I hope he treats you like a lover ought to do.

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But whoever makes you happy, it don't really matter who

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I've got a new lover now, I hope you've got a lover too.

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Praise the water under bridges, the time they say will heal

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Praise the fonder, that still grows on the absent heart and fields

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Praise be to this pain, these days it's all I seem to feel.

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Perhaps the fault was mine, perhaps I just ignored

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who you're always gonna be, instead of who I took you for.

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I've been treated worse it's true, still I expected more.

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But I will not chase your shadow as you go from room to room,

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Droppin' handkerchiefs and daggers, smokin' guns and other clues

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For what someone did with someone and who did what to who.

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I've got a new lover now, I hope you've got a lover too.

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I've got a new lover now, I know that she's not mine,

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I only want to hold her, I don't need to read her mind,

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And she only looks like you when she's in a certain light.

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I got a new lover now, she knows just what I need.

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When I wake up in the night, she can read me back my dreams,

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And she loves them, though she never needs to tell me what they mean.

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I hope you've got a lover now, hope you've got somebody who

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Can give you what you need like I couldn't seem to do.

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But if you're sad and you are lonesome and you've got nobody true,

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I'd be lying if I said that didn't make me happy too.

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I'd be lying if I said that didn't make me happy too.