Why do I Keep Counting

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         There's a plane and I am flying
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        There's a mountain waiting for me
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Oh these years have been so trying
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I don't know if I can use them
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Am I strong enough            To be the one?
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             Will I live to have some children?
Chorus 1:
E
Help me get down
I can make it
Help me get down
B/D#
Help me get down
I can make it
Help me get down
     G#m                 C#m
If I only knew the answer
C#m           A         B    A B
I wouldn't be bothering you, Father
E
Help me get down
I can make it
Help me get down
B
Help me get down
      Cm
I can make it
Help me get down
     C#m               B
If I only knew the answer
       A                      Am
And if all our days are numbered
                         E
Then why do I keep counting?
Interlude:
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Verse:
C#5
My sugar sweet
A       D#5
Is so atainable
G#5    C#5       F#5    B5
This behaviour so unexplainable
C5 C#5                 A5
The days just slip and slide
                 D#5
Like they always did
G#5        C#5
The trouble is my head
F#                F#m       B
Won't let me forget
Bridge:
F# G#
I took one last good look around

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So many unusual sounds
F#m Gm  G#m    A        A# B       B*
I gotta get my feet on the ground
Chorus:
Help me get down
I can make it   (pick slide)

E
Help me get down
I can make it
Help me get down
B/D#
Help me get down
I can make it
Help me get down
     G#m               C#m
If I only knew the answer
              A         B    A  B
I wouldn't be bothering you, Father

E
Help me get down
I can make
Help me get down
B
Help me get down
      Cm
I can make it
Help me get down
     C#m                B
If I only knew the answer
       A                       Am    Asus4
And if all our days are numbered

          E                 B  Cm
Would you help me get down?
     C#m                 B
If I only knew the answer
     E                       A
If I change my way of living
         F#m                             B
And If I pave my streets with the good times
         E                      A
Will the mountain keep on giving?
       C#m        B        A
And if all of our days are numbered

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Outro:
Then why do I keep counting?

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