Intro
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Dm Gm C
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Dm Gm C
Dm Gm
As I walk through the streets of my new city
C F
my back feeling much better, I suppose
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I've reclaimed the use of my imagination
C F
for better or for worse, I've yet to know
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but I always knew you'd be the one to understand me,
C F Fbm6
I guess that's why it took so long to get things right.
Dm
Suddenly I'm lost
Gm
On my street
On my block
C
Oh why, Oh why
F A#
Oh why haven't you been there for me?
C F Fbm6
Can't you see, I'm losing my mind this time?
Dm Gm
This time it's for real, I can see
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All the trees are turning red
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The beggars near bodegas grin at me
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I think they want something
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I close my eyes, I tell myself to breathe
F
and be calm.
Be calm.
A# F
I know you feel like you are breaking down.
Dm Gm A#
Well I know that it gets so hard sometimes.
C
Be calm.
Dm Gm
I'm scared that everyone is out to get me.
C F Fbm6
"These days before you speak to me you pause."
Dm Gm
"I always see you looking out your window."
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"After all, you lost your band, you left your mom."
Dm Gm
Now every single crack, every pain that I pass,
C F Fbm6
says I should either leave or pick it up
Dm
But with every single buck I've made
Gm
I'm saddled with bad luck that came
C
the moment I was baptized
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or when I found out one day I'm gonna die
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if only I could find my people or my place in life
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then when they come to 'carolin'
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so loud, so bright, the theremin
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will lead us to a chorus
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where we'll all rejoice and sing a song that goes:
F
Oh be calm.
Be calm.
A# F
I know you feel like you are breaking down.
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I know that it gets so hard sometimes,
C
Be calm.
F Am
Take it from me, I've been there a thousand times.
Dm
You hate your pulse because it thinks you're still alive
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and e-very--thing's wrong
A# Gm
It just gets so hard sometimes
C
Be calm.
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I don't remember much that night,
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Just walking, thinking fondly of you
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Thinking how the worst is yet to come
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From that street corner came a song
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And I can't remember the man,
C F Fbm6
The panhandler or his melody.
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The words exchanged had far exceeded any change I'd given thee.
F
Oh be calm.
Be calm.
A# F
I know you feel like you are breaking down.
Dm Gm A#
I know that it gets so hard sometimes,
C
Be calm.
F Am
Take it from me, I've been there a thousand times.
Dm
You hate your pulse because it thinks you're still alive
Dm Em F Gm
and e-very--thing's wrong
A# Gm
It just gets so hard sometimes
C
Be calm.
Dm
Be calm.
D* G*
by: Allan Lauzid