My Time Outside The Womb Chords

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 The first thing you see is the lGight.

 Then, you fCocus on a man in a mask with a knife

 as he Acuts you away from everythCing you thought you knew about life. G

 And now you’re in your mother’s arms, wrinkleGd and wet.

 You’re gonna spend the rest of Cyour life trying to hard to forget

 that you Amet the world naked and scrCeaming, and that’s how you’ll leave it. G

 In RGiverside Hospital,

 this was on a JuCly morning, with a push and a pull,

 and this is hAow I found out I wasn’t quite sCo invulnerable. G

C It put the fear of DGod in me when I hGeard my daddy saAy,

 “one mistake iCs all that it takes.”D

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 I ended up at Central SGchool, 1993,

 and met a certain Ckid named Sarim at the library.

 He said, theyre aiAnt nothing about this plCace thats elementary. G

 I learned to play the guGitar in the seventh grade

 in order to conCvince everyone I was a renegade.

 That’s when I learned,A in Glen Rock, everybCody calls a spade a spade. G

C I couldn’t fool anyonDe. I couldn’t Geven fool myself. A

 I was jusCt another book on theD shelf.

 Nothing else. G