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[Verse 1]
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Was it the aching of your wrists
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Or just because of your weathered eyes
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Was it the shake in your clenching fists
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[Verse 2]
Or the hollow pass of time
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Was it the aging of her hips
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Or the way that my mother always cried
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Was it the taste of another's lips
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For which you put down your fight

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[Verse 3]
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Had you forgotten her long white dress
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How pretty she looked coming down the isle
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You asked her to love you and she said yes
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And she loved you like a child

[Verse 4]
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Had you forgotten those long hard days
 G                  C                G
Coming home to your lover most every night
G                                       Em
She'd wait for you to step off of that train
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She's been waiting all her life

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[Verse 5]
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Love is getting your hands dirty
Em
Love is bleeding all over each other
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Love is sharing the same burden
Em                                    Am      Am7    Am  Em
Love's not living, it's dying, it's dying together
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It's dying together

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[Outro]
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I feel the weight of her broken prayer
A7           C             G
Twenty Three years pleading for your life
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Twenty Three years begging you to care
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For your tired and lonely wife