The Wonder Years - Passing Through A Screen Door

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0Cigarette smoke dances back in the window
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1And I can see the haze on the dome light.
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2I`m conjuring ghosts on a forty-hour ride home
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3And they keep asking me what I`m doing with my life,
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4While my cousins go to bed with their wives.
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5I'm feeling like I've fallen behind.
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8Well the highway won.
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9I`m listening to traffic reports,
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10One on one, coming quietly undone.
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11I was born to run away from anything good
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12An escape artist`s son
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13With sun-drenched pavement in my blood.
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14The first thing that I do when I walk in
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15Is plan a way out for when xxxx gets bad
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18And I`ve been looking for tears in the screen door.
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19-tears in the screen door-
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20I`ve been waiting for another disaster.
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21-another disaster-
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Interlude: E46  G#m47  A48  C#m49  B50
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24I`m terrified like a kid in the sixties,
 A53                  C#m54             B55
25Staring at the sky waiting for the bomb to fall.
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26It`s all a lie, what they say about stability.
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27It scares me sometimes,
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28The emptiness I see in my eyes.
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31All the kid`s names I’ve ever liked are tied to tragedy
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32And I don’t want my children growing up to be anything like me.
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    C#m69         B70      A71   E72            C#m73
35And I`ve been looking for tears in the screen door.
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36-tears in the screen door-
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37I`ve been waiting for another disaster.
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38-another disaster-
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39But I was kind of hoping you`d stay.
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40I was kind of hoping you`d stay.
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Interlude: A89  E90  B91
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43I keep a flashlight
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44And a small knife in the corner of my bed stand.
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45I keep a flashlight and the train times,
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46But you wouldn’t understand.
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47How could you understand?
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50Jesus Christ. I`m twentysix.
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51All the people I graduated with
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52All have kids, all have wives,
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53All have people who care if they come home at night.
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54Jesus Christ, did I xxxx up?
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    C#m110         B111      A112   E113             C#m114
57And I`ve been looking for tears in the screen door.
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58-tears in the screen door-
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59I`ve been waiting for another disaster.
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60-another disaster-
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61But I was kind of hoping you`d stay.
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62I was kind of hoping you`d stay.
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63I was kind of hoping you`d stay.
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