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         C#m  E

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I say, here stand I
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I can't do otherwise
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But is it enough?
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And why'd you look so tough?
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Back at Patrick Park
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We stood in the dark
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In my beer-stained mind
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I said "please won't you be mine?"

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There's something dark hangin' over my head
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I'm seventeen, don't hold your breath
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There's something dark hangin' over my head
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I'm seventeen, don't hold your breath

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On the high school lot
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You'd kiss me so long
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But lessons don't last
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When I'm playing you so fast

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There's something dark hangin' over my head
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I'm seventeen, don't hold your breath
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There's something dark hangin' over my head
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I'm seventeen, don't hold your breatH

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Punch and first collapse
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Drunk at winter dance
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Looks in red dress
C#m
Oh, what an awful mess

B          F#        E                C#m E
There's something dark hangin' over my head
B      F#    E                    C#m E
I'm seventeen, don't hold your breath
B          F#        E                C#m E
There's something dark hangin' over my head
B      F#    E                    C#m E
I'm seventeen, don't hold your breatH