IntroCDGGCDGGGDGA cold wind against my shoulder woke me up in the middle of the night
Em
An autumn leaf was scraping against my window
G
Like it was tryin' hard to get inside
CD
And then a ghost that I had met before he kept me up till dawn
GC
And everything I thought was right was suddenly all wrong
D
He said "your score is looking pretty bad"
G
Then he asked me what it was that I had to show
G
So I went runnin' down a list of things
DG
Some were real, but on some of them I lied
Em
'Cause I felt I had to justify each breath that
G
I'd been breathin' in this life
CD
Then I realized I was playing into someone else's rules
GC
Tryin' to keep my score up in a game I did not choose
D
Then I looked that ghost straight in the eye and said
G
"You'd better not be coming back by again"
GC
And it's true that I don't work near as hard
D
As you tell me that I'm supposed to
GC
I don't run as fast as I could
D
But I live just the way I want to
G
And that's the way I should
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October's leaves were dancin' 'round
DG
Like angels dressed in robes of red and gold
Em
But November's come and gone now
G
And they're lyin' in the gutter out along the road
CD
They're gonna make their way out to the ditch or someday to the sea
GC
But they'll get to where they're goin' without the help of you or me
D
And if each life is just a grain of sand
G
I'm tellin' you man, this grain of sand is mine
GC
And it's true that I don't work near as hard
D
As you tell me that I'm supposed to
GC
I don't run as fast as I could
D
But I live just the way I want to
G
And that's the way I should
CD
But I live just the way I want to
G
And that's the way I should
Outro. Repeat To Fade]
CDGG
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