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Percussion solo

Intro

After school, walkin home

Fresh dirt under my fingernails and

I can smell hot asphalt

Cars screech to a halt to let me pass

And I cannot remember

What life was like through photographs

And trying to recreate images life gives us from the past

 And sometimes its a sad song. But I

Chorus

Cannot forget, refuse to regret

 So glad I met you and

Take my breath away

 Make everyday

 Worth all of the pain that I've gone through

And mama, I've been cryin'

 Cause things ain't how they used to be

 She said, 'The battle's almost won

 And we're only several mi-les from the sun.'

 O-wo-ho-o-o-o-o-oh, yeah

Verse

 And I'm movin on, down my street

I see people I won't ever meet

I think of her, take a breath

Feel the beat in the rhythm of my steps

 And sometimes its a sad song. But I

Chorus

Cannot forget, refuse to regret

 So glad I met you and

Take my breath away

 Make everyday

 Worth all of the pain that I've gone through

And mama, I've been cryin'

 Cause things ain't how they used to be

 She said, 'The battle's almost won

 And we're only several mi-les from the sun.'

Bridge

Rhythm of the conversation

The perfection of her creation

The sex she slipped into my coffee

The way she felt when she first saw me

Hate to love and love to hate her

Like a broken record player

Back and forth and here and gone

 and on and on and on and on!

Chorus

Cannot forget, refuse to regret

 So glad I met you and

Take my breath away

 Make everyday

 Worth all of the pain that I've gone through

And mama, I've been cryin'

 Cause things ain't how they used to be

 She said, 'The battle's almost won

 And we're only several mi-i-i-iles

 Said, 'The battle's almost won

 And we're only several mi-les from the sun.'

 Yea-...--ah

Chords Am,C,D continues till end.