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- OUTSIDE LOOKING IN (Mary Chapin Carpenter)
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- [I'm not quite sure about some of these chords; I especially wonder about
- the intro and the bridge. As always, suggestions are welcome.]
- [Actually in A; capo 2.]
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- G F Am Am G F Am Am
- [intro]
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- G D/F# C/E C
- Everywhere I see the signs, pointing one direction
- G D/F# C/E C
- No more twists or crooked turns, leaving room for doubt
- G D/F# C/E C
- Where I used to take the time for quiet and reflection
- G D/F# C/E C
- Now I only hear the noise of what I am without
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- G G C(9)/G C(9)/G
- I see them walking hand in hand, and my eyes just want to linger
- G G C(9)/G C(9)/G
- On those golden wedding bands, wrapped around their fingers
- F F Am7 Am7
- By the time I turn away, I feel it once again
- G D/F# Am7 C
- I'm back in this familiar place, outside looking in
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- G D/F# Am7 C
- [instrumental]
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- Baby, all the tears between us couldn't fill the spaces
- And all the word we grasped at, they just fell away
- I kept waiting on forgiveness to fix the broken places
- But nothing even like it ever came my way
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- And tonight I drove around, and the street came up before me
- I took a turn and then I found this old house coming toward me
- I heard the sound a heart must make when a memory's caving in
- Oh baby, what a hungry place, outside looking in
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- G D/F# Am7 C G D/F# Am7 C
- [instrumental]
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- G G C(9) C(9)
- It's the hardest kind of need that never knows a reason
- G G C(9) C(9)
- Are we such a lonely breed, or just born in a lonely season
- Am Am F F
- Baby, it's all in the eyes, it's where the reckoning begins
- Am Am F F
- It's where we linger like a sigh, it's where we long to be pulled in
- Am Am F F
- It's where we learn to say goodbye without saying anything
- G D/F# Am7 C
- Standing on the borderline, outside looking in
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- G D/F# Am7 C G D/F# Am7 C
- [instrumental; repeat and fade]
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- - Adam Schneider, schn0170@maroon.tc.umn.edu
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