Kunci: Bb major•
Intro 1
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Verse 1
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It is an early Monday morning.
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Gm
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The sun is becoming bright on the land.
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Gm
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No one is watching as he
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Two bulky suitcases hang
Verse 2
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Gm
He heads towards the tower
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that stands in the campus.
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He goes through the door,
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he starts up the stairs.
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Gm
The sound of his footsteps,
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the sound of his breathing,
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F
The sound of the silence when no
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Adim
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Verse 3
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Adim
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I didn't really know him.
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He was kind of strange.
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Adim
Always sort of sat there.
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He never seemed to change.
Interlude 1
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Verse 4
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Gm
He reached the catwalk. He
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put done his bur den.
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Gm
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The four sided clock began
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to chime.
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Gm
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Seven AM, the day is beginning.
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So much to do and so little time.
Verse 5
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Gm
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He looks at the city where no
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one had known him.
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Gm
He looks at the sky where
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no one looks down.
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Gm
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He looks at his life and what
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He looks for his shadow
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C
it cannot be found.
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Verse 6
He was such a moody child,
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very hard to touch.
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Even as a baby he never smiled
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too much. No no.No no.
Verse 7
Your ugly, she said.
Please hug me, I said.
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But she just sat there
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With the same flat stare
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That she saves for me alone
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When I'm home.
Verse 8
Gm
He laid out the rifles,
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Ab
he loaded the shotgun,
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Gm
He stacked up the cartridges
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along the wall.
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Gm
He knew he would need them
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If it went as it he planned,
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then he might use them all.
Verse 9
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Gm
He said Listen you people I've
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got a question
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Gm
You won't pay attention
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but I'll ask any how.
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Gm
I found a way that will
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get me an answer.
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Been waiting to ask you 'till now.
Verse 10
Gm
C
I am a lover whose never been kissed.
Am I?
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I am a fighter whose not made a fist.
Gm
If I'm alive then there's so much
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Dm
Gm
C
How do I know I ex ist?
Are you listening to me?
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Gm
C
Am I?
Verse 11
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Gm
The first words he spoke took
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the town by surprise.
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Gm
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Eb
One got Mrs. Gibbons above her right eye.
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It blew her through the window
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wedged her against the door.
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Reality poured from her face,
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staining the floor.
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Verse 12
He was kind of creepy,
Sort of a dunce.
I met him at the corner bar.
I only dated the poor boy once,
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Gm
C
That's all. Just once, that was all.
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Bill
Verse 13
Whedon was questioned as
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Tom Scott ran across the street but
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The po lice were there in minutes,
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He spoke right on over them
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in a half-mile circle.
circle.
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In a dumb struck city his pointed
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questions were sprayed.
Verse 14
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Cm
He knocked over Danny Tyson as he
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ran towards the noise.
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Just about then the answers started comming. Sweet,
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sweet joy.
Thudding in the clock face,
whining off the walls,
Reaching up to where he sat there,
Verse 15
answering calls.
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Thirty-seven people people
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got his message so far.
Yes, he was reaching them
right were they are.
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Verse 16
They set up an assault team. They
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They had to go and get him,
And the word spread about him on the
radios and TV's.
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In appropriately sober tone they
asked "Who can it be?"
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Verse 17
Adim
He was a very dull boy,
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Not much of a joiner,
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he did not want to learn.
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Am
No no.No no.
Verse 18
Am
They're coming to get me,
they don't want to let me
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Stay in the bright light too long.
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It's getting on noon now, it's
goin to be soon now.
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But oh, what a wonderful sound!
Verse 19
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Mama, won't you nurse me?
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Rain me down the sweet
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Mama, it's getting worse for me.
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Won't you please make me warm
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andmindless?
Verse 20
yes you have cursed me.
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C
I never will forgive you for your blindness.
Verse 21
The wires are all humming for me.
And I can hear them coming
for me.
Soon they'll be here,
but there's nothing to fear.
Not any more though they've
blasted the door.
Cm
Verse 22
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As the copter dropped the gas he
shouted "Who cares?" .
They could hear him laughing
as they started up the stairs.
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As they stormed out on the catwalk,
blinking at the sun,
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With their final fusillade
Verse 23
C
Gm
no way that you can hide me.
Gm
Though you have put your fire inside me.
You've given me my
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answer can't you see?
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I was!
I am!
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And now I will be
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