Misc Originals – Bridges 1 - The Hobo Prophet (Guitar)

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Foundations crumble and houses they fall down

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Even the ghosts can go and leave nothin' in this town

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The water may rise but the tides are gonna wash and fade away

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And flowers bloom but they're gonna turn brown again some day

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So we'll pack our bags I'll head West if you go East

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It's not such a painless thing no not in the very least

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So go follow that sunrise I'm gonna meet up with the moon

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And maybe we'll meet again but not so very soon

                F             C
If you don't burn a few bridges

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You'll just keep walkin' the sAme old roads

          F               C
Where the path untraveled leads to

     G                   Am
Is a future you'll never know

   F                    C
So put the match to the timbers

  G                   Am      G
Reduce that bridge to embers

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And don't forget to laugh while you're watchin' it burn

    F               C                  G           Am
No don't forget to laugh while you're watchin' it burn

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The leaves they fall but they're gonna grow back again

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A man can't be truly good until he's done his share of sin

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The sun gave us life some day it'll burn us all

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Like mountains standing strong we can still crack and fall

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Was it one of time's oldest secrets that dug so deep into our hearts

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And kept us all a-growin' until we grew so far apart

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Did we stay up too late? Or have one too many epiphanies?

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Or stare too hard out at the ocean 'til we drifted like the seas?

                F             C
If you don't burn a few bridges

                     G                       Am
You'll just keep walkin' the sAme old roads

          F               C
Where the path untraveled leads to

     G                   Am
Is a future you'll never know

   F                    C
So put the match to the timbers

  G                   Am      G
Reduce that bridge to embers

    F               C                  G           C
And don't forget to laugh while you're watchin' it burn

    F               C                  G           Am  G
No don't forget to laugh while you're watchin' it burn

       F               C                  G
Please think of me and laugh while you're watchin' it

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Burnin' Burnin' burnin' burnin' burnin' burnin' burnin' burn it

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   Down

        F  C G Am
Burn it    down

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Burn the motherfucker to the ground

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You gotta burn a few bridges, oh yeah yeah yeah