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Version 1
Song is mainly fingerpicked, in bluegrass style alternating from the root note.
Lyrics are in a conversational type cadence not necessarily
[Intro]
D G
Bm A D
[Verse 1]
D
It was days on end in a minivan
G
It was lookin' for an X on the map
D
Long nights shakin' in a stranger's house
G
With a bottle in my lap
D A7
Runnin' from the deafening sound
D G
Of a future with no one around
Bm A7 D
From Barcelona to Vestal's Gap
[Chorus 1]
G A
And I spent countless hours walkin'
D G
I never did like single file
Bm A
Prayin' to some vague set of eyes
D G
That it's only for a while
D A
Now I kneel before the only things I know
D G
This set of keys and I told-you-so's
Bm A D
Someday, it'll be worth the miles
[Instrumental]
D G
Bm A D
[Verse 2]
D
It was cigarettes outside an empty bar
G
On a dark December morning
D
Months of bad food and a pauper's guitar
G
Never heedin' any warning
D A
I've had friends and I've let my friends down
D G
Lookin' for my heart in the lost and found
Bm A D
Bare hands, tryin' to stop the rain from pourin'
[Chorus 2]
G A
And I been gainin' on the crack of dawn
D G
With glass eyes and a smile
Bm A
Prayin' Saint Faustina please
D G
Let me go out in style
D A7
And I'll never know how far it goes
D G
'Til the Devil reaps what I have sown
Bm A D
'Til then, I'm going to feel every mile
[Outro]
D G
Bm A D