C G F C G F [Verse]C F G C G F C G F Sometimes I get the feeling I've passed this way one time in life beforeC F G C G F C Like the rerun of some movie I've seen a thousand Saturdays agoAm D G I know exactly what your gonna say before it happens in each sceneC F G And I find myself rehearsing for that blackout situationC G F Where the punchline reaches out and punches me [Chorus]C F G C G F I always play the same part; the good guy gets the girl, I wind up dead.C G FC F G Who rides into the sunset when the credits start to roll and flash upon theC G F C screen inside my headAm D G The show is done, the lights go up, I throw my empty popcorn box awayAm D G Go back to unreality on rubber legs, I walk into the day [Bridge]Am D Life is never logical, the faces change, the lines all stay the sameAm D I know the cues where I came in, the exits but I can't recall your nameC F G C G F So save your breath, don't tell me how it all comes out, somehow I think I knowC F G C I've heard that tear stained monologue you do there by the door before you go.Am D G What makes me take you by the hand and stand around in line one time againAm D G Just to see the same old madness.. well, I ask you ain't this the place where I came in?C F G C G F C So save your breath, don't tell me how it all come out, somehow I think I knowC F G C I've heard that tear stained monologue you do there by the door before you go.
Ive Heard That Tearstained Monologue You Do
John Hartford
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