Standard (EADGBE)

Intro

x 4

Is it all so very simple

 And horribly complex?

 You suffer in a thimble

 And there's nothing coming next

 Your mom smokes in the kitchen

 Her voice a cutting drone

So creeping out, you pass the bar

 Your father's second home

 That leaves you on your own

Nights I'd often watch you

Float across the grounds

Out the gate to the motorway

 What secrets have you found?

You had to know I wanted

Something from you then

Too young to know just what it was

 Something more than a friend

 Is that you at the end

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Where you play in the street at night

- ( - )

Blown like a broken kite

- ( - )

My girl, you're giving up the fight

 Are you gonna let these Americans

 Put another dent in your life?

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 My mother says your dirty

 They're gonna find you dead

But have you got that final chapter

Written in your head?

 Cause every single story

 Is a story about love

Both the over flowing cup

 And the painful lack thereof

 You got the heart of a dove

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But, you play in the street at night

- ( - )

Blown like a broken kite

- ( - )

My girl, you're giving up the fight

( - )

You'll have to lose all them childish notions

 If you're gonna let these American boys

 Put another dent in your life

Instrumental break

x4

- ( - )

you play in the street at night

- ( - )

Blown like a broken kite

- ( - )

My girl, you're giving up the fight

( - )

You'll have to lose all them childish notions

 Or you're gonna let these Americans

 Put another dent in your life

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