Rodney Crowell – Time To Go Inward (Guitar)

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  It's time to go inward,   take a look at myself,

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  time to make the most of the time that I've got left,

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  prison bars imagined are no less solid steel.

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  Time to go inward, would you believe that I'm afraid,

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  to stare down the barrel of the choices I have made,

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  the ghost of bad decisions make mountains out of everything I feel.

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  Outside my window the wind weaves a path through the trees,

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the moon takes a shine to the shadows that fall on the leaves.

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  It's time to go inward,   hmmm,

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  I don't know if I can do it after all that I've become;

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  I've been a fool for money but it's vanity that always leaves me flat.

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  It's time to go inward, man, I hope I have the nerve

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  to take an inventory of the causes that I serve.

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They say a man without a conscience is like a man

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without a country   or something like that.

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  It's time to go inward   time to be still,

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  if I don't do it now I don't believe I ever will.

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My mind is like a chatterbox whose noise pollutes

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the pathways to my soul.

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  Time to go inward,   time to get a grip,

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  time to put an end to one long bad acid trip;

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  I'm all out of excuses for the way I've let my choices take a toll.

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Jesus and Buddah and Krishna and Minnie Pearl knew:

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to do unto other the things you want done unto you.

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  Time to go inward,   take a look at me,

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  try to make some sense of life's illusions that I see;

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  try to solve the riddle of what it is I have to offer to this world.