The Mountain Goats – Alibi (Guitar)

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I got off work just past 11 laid one finger to the breeze

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You can almost taste the action on nights like these

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Trees were bending in the wind you were 40 miles away

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And I was headed your direction I’d been waiting all day I’d been waiting all

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day

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Moon over West Covina was huge and white

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And I was like a patient on a table headed for the light

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Leaned toward the center divider feel the wind in my hair

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Keep a light up in your window I'm gonna be right there, I'm gonna be right

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there

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With a gleam in my eye

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and an almost airtight   alibi

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Down by the chemistry building I found a quiet place to park

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And I made my way down the street toward your place stepping lightly in the dark

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Climbed up the steps to your doorway like a man prepared to jump beneath a train

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Its real warm outside tonight maybe tomorrow it rains maybe tomorrow it rains

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Inside your room we shut the window and we turned on a fan

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And we lay there together in the darkness I can keep a secret If you can

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Finishing one another's sentences like a pair of identical twins

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Your boyfriend's out of town until Tuesday

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And nobody saw me come in, nobody saw me come in

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With a gleam in my eye

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and an almost airtight   alibi