Tonart: Bb major•
Intro 1
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Verse 1
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It is an early Monday morning.
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The sun is becoming bright on the land.
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No one is watching as he
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Two bulky suitcases hang
Verse 2
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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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The sound of his footsteps,
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the sound of his breathing,
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The sound of the silence when no
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Verse 3
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I didn't really know him.
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He was kind of strange.
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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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The four sided clock began
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to chime.
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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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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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He looks at his life and what
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He looks for his shadow
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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
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You bug me, she said.
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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for his conversation.
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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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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
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I am a lover whose never been kissed.
Am I?
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I am a fighter whose not made a fist.
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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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Are you listening to me?
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Gm
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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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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
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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,
Adim
Not much of a joiner,
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he did not want to learn.
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No no.No no.
Verse 18
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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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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
Cm
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
Gm
his answer had come.
Verse 23
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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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