Nick Lowe – Stoplight Roses (Guitar)

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You've practiced and rehearsed it

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But in your heart you know it's too late

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Ex-perience should tell you

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   Never get your story too straight

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You'd better steel yourself

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And pre-pare for   some blues to de-scend

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Cause you've broken something this time

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  Stoplight roses can't mend

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You've dusted off your shame face

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In the mirror behind the bathroom door

     B7         B7/F#          B7              B7/F#
That little-boy-lost look that used to work so well

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Doesn't any more

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If you believe your same-old used-to-be

     E       F#
Will see you through

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You'll last about as long as    stoplight roses do

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Stoplight roses          in their sad array

                  A               B7
Love's promise in cellophane lace

               E    Emaj7   E7
Or dead give-a-way

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   You'll need time to devise

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   A stylish plan

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And you'll do it driving over to

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   The stoplight roses man

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And if you believe your same-old used-to-be

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   Will see you through

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You'll last about as long as stoplight roses do

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