Secret Fires

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Touch me through your screen door
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I want to remember you
           E      B
They that are behind me
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Are there against the moon

[Verse 2]
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Remember when we used to ride
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Underneath the power lines
          E     B
In the inferno valley
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When your father was alive

[Verse 3]
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We worked for days and years
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Through the dust and the heat
    E             B
I came around to see you
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On highway-burning feet

[Verse 4]
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I spent my days at the mill
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I came home and cared for you
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In the year that we lived in secret fires

[Interlude]
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E B C#m

[Verse 5]
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I took my razor blade
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I laid Ruben in the shade
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And I heard the radio moan

[Verse 6]
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I took my place in the hills
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Jagged with the secret fires
   E                     B
I called you through the valley
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Down among the wires

[Bridge]
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With dust upon my eyes
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Came the first day of the year
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I saw the house where no one lived
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On a black land and under a red sky
       E                B
You washed my hair and body
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Beside the firelight

[Verse 7]
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So, touch me through your screen door
    C#m             B
I want to remember you
      E
We struggled
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The year we lived in secret fire