The Weakerthans – The Prescience Of Dawn (Guitar)

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The sirens woke me up again

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I know they're coming for me someday, just a matter of when

G         Asus4 Bm
Count to 25 and yawn

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Touch the clock and turn my back against the dawn

D                     G
And hope for that one dream

   A                    Bm        A
Of hardware stores with checkered floors

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And buckets full of nails

            D    G
Or floating effortless

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Over the apartments in a boat

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And rowing past the office windows

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Mother, mother, may I cry?

        A                 Bm
Father, will you teach me how to die the right way someday?

G       A                  Bm
I don't want a second chance

D                     Bm
To turn my stuttering reluctance into romance

           D      G
With these documents

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And kindergarten anthems with my drunken liturgies

         D  G    A             Bm             A      Em
Tune the FM into static and pretend that it's the sea

                                      D A
But four words fumble for the microphone

                      D 
"You should have known"

                 D       A G  
"You should have known"