Keaton Henson – The Grand Old Reason (Guitar)

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While the grand old reason

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Pulls out its tether

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While you lay black and blue

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Under the weather

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The dark tries light

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Dips its toe in the water

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And faith means death

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Time's cruel younger daughter

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And you sing songs of the rhyme and the reason

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Press your weary face to the glass of the season

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With hope on your breath

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And a prayer in the evening

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Well, if you believe

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I believe you'll be leaving

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But you much like I, don't know where

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When we die we will go

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So we cling, desperate fingers

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Onto life

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And we'll all miss you to death

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When you go

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All the crow lands wild

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On the lung of our youth

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While the rain beats hard

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On the slates of the roof

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Where you just try to sleep

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In a haze of medication

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On New Year's Eve

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Through the sound of elation

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In the bastard's home is a hospital bed

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Where the life drains so gladly from your greying head

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Oh, I'm so broken down that I can not be made

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I'm just so fucking sorry that you are afraid

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But like you, I have tried for so long

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Not to cry

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That I don't even know if I can when you die

          Em           D
But I'm sure as damn hell

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I'm gonna try

           Em           D
Oh, I am sure as damn hell

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Gonna try