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Ten Ton Shoes Tab

by Straylight Run


acoustic

mike g

Intro: C Am  2X arpeggio pick up the two chords

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Living in fear because the world is cold
     
And hope might be coming but you never know.
          
There are dead end streets around every turn.
                                               (strum once)
And a road map too beaten up, torn, and burnt to read.

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Dead weight carried on for miles and miles.
    
And someone's telling jokes but you never smile,
                                        
As the rows of tombstone houses pass you by.
    
And I say, you say, we say change.
    
But we all know just what they say.
                                             
The more things change the more they stay the same.
                   (strum once)
They just stay the same.

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This time it's eating me alive.(strum between C and Am a couple times)


start strumming the C and Am for this verse
       
It's a long cold winter in the dead of night.
        
And the candidates are saying they can make it right.
                                       
And we'll buy almost anything that they sell.

Drop dead headlights coming down the road.
          
And we're frozen blind

Believing in a heart of gold that will
                                   
Swoop right in and save us from our sins.
                 (strum once)
Save us from our sins.

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This time it's eating me alive. switch between C and Am a couple times
 
                                        
I'm a bug on it's back kicking legs in the air
                          
On a sidewalk in a city somewhere
                                      
Seconds from thundering steps and ten ton shoes.

                               
I'm a bug on it's back kicking legs in the air
                          
On a sidewalk in a city somewhere
                                    
Seconds from thundering steps and ten ton shoes.

Switch between C and Am
This time it's eating me alive.

end on C

                
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