Intro
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Welcome to our house on Maple Avenue.
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See how we polish and we shine.
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We rearrange and realign.
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Everything is balanced and… and…
[Verse 1]
Dbsus Db Gb
Days and days and days—that's how it happens:
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Days and days and days
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Made of lunches And car rides
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And shirts and socks
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And grades And piano
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And no one clocks the day you disappear.
[Verse 2]
Dbsus Db Gb
Days and days and days— that's how it happens:
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Days and days and days
Gb
Made of posing And bragging
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And fits of rage
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And boys – my god, some of them underage!
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And, oh, how did it all happen here?
[Bridge]
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There was a time your father swept me off my feet with words.
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We read books,
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Strolled through Munich at night, drank beer with friends,
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Discussed the places we would go.
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And he said I understood how the world made him ache.
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But no,
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but no.
[Verse 3]
Gb Dbsus Db
That's how it happens:
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Days
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Made of bargains I made because I thought
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As a wife I was meant to,
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And now my life is shattered and made bare.
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Days and days and days and days and days and days and days.
[Bridge 2]
A# F
Welcome to our house on Maple Avenue.
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See how we polish and we shine.
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We rearrange and realign.
A# F
Everything is balanced and serene.
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Like chaos never happens if it's never seen.
[Verse 4]
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Don't you come back here. I didn't raise you
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To give away your days
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Like me.