Intro
Ab D# A# Cm
[Verse]
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I left Wichita on a cracked western road
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For Missouri and all of her caverns
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To hide like an outlaw from what I have heard
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There are some things in life I don't want to learn
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But I am not Lewis or Clark; I am only a man
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Who gets lost in his questions like
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"Why doesn't love heal when we need it most?"
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Will somebody give me the answer I need?
[Chorus]
Cm Ab A# Cm
I'd sing hallelujah, if I could recall what it means
Ab A#
And just who I am praising
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I don't think that I can express it in words
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So I let the melody do all my speaking
[Verse]
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Just when I think I am safe and secure
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There's that haunting again in my conscience
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The ticking, the tapping of cold memory
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Like a steel radiator that's run out of steam
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We're pushin' and pullin', we hold ourselves down
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It starts with the small things
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So I will keep trying to become the man that you need
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And remember you taught me to sing
[Chorus]
Cm Ab A# Cm
And I'd sing hallelujah, if I could recall what it means
Ab A#
And just who I am praising
Cm Ab A# Cm
I don't think that I can express it in words
Cm Ab A# D#
So I let the melody do all my speaking
[Bridge]
D# Cm
Take what you need
Ab D#
Don't take any more
D# Cm
Oh, take what you need
Ab D#
Don't take any more
[Chorus]
Cm Ab A# Cm
I'd sing hallelujah, if I could recall what it means
Ab A#
And just who I am praising
Cm Ab A# Cm
I don't think that I can express it in words
Cm Ab A# D#
So I let the melody do all my speaking