Living Proof

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                                G
Well now on a summer night in a dusky room
                          D
Come a little piece of the Lord's undying light
             A                G
Crying like he swallowed the fiery moon
      D                                   G
Yeah, in his mother's arms it was all the beauty I could take
                     D                      A
Like the missing words to some prayer that I could never make
         G                              D
Oh, in a world so hard and dirty so fouled and confused
             G                           A
Searching for a little bit of God's mercy
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I found living proof

                                  G
I put my heart and soul I put 'em high upon a shelf
      D                     A                 G
Right next to the faith the faith I'd lost in myself
      D
I went down into the desert city
      G
Just tryin' so hard to shed my skin
   D
I crawled deep into some kind of darkness
                    A
Lookin' to burn out every, every trace of who I'd been
                G
You do some sad sad things baby
           D
When it's you you're tryin' to lose
            G                     A
You do some sad and hurtful things
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I've seen living proof

          A
You shot through my anger and rage
               Em                         A
To show me my prison was just an open cage

There were no keys no guards
     G                               A              D
Just one frightened man and some old shadows for bars

(Guitar solo) | D | G | G | D | D | G | G


                        D
Well now all that's sure on the boulevard
             G
Is that life is just a house of cards
    D
As fragile as each and every breath
            A
Of this boy sleepin' in our bed
              D
Tonight let's lie beneath the eaves
             G
Just a close band of happy thieves
                  D
And when that train comes we'll get on board
                   A
And steal what we can from the treasures, treasures of the Lord
             G
It's been a long long drought baby
                   D
Tonight the rain's pourin' down on our roof, Lord
 G                                 A
Looking for a little bit of God's mercy
         G
I found living proof
      D
Oh, living proof
          G
I found living proof
        D
Yeah, living proof
          G
I found living proof
            D
Oh, found living proof
          G
I found living proof
            D
Oh, found living proof
                G
Yeah, I found living proof
          D
I found living proof
          G
I found living proof
     D  | D | G | G | (fade out)
Oh, now


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