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[Verse 1]
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I can see myself it's a golden sunrise
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Young boy open up your eyes
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It's supposed to be your day
C
Now off you go horizon bound
D
And you won't stop until you've found
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Your own kind of way
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And the wind will whip your tousled hair
Em
The sun, the rain, the sweet despair,
Am
Great tales of love and strife
C
And somewhere on your path to glory
D G
You will write your story of a life
[Verse 2]
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And all the towns that you walk through
Em
And all the people that you talk to
Am
Sing you their songs
C
And there are times you change your stride
D
There are times you can't decide
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Still you go on
G
And then the young girls dance their gypsy tunes
Em
And share the secrets of the moon
Am
So soon you find a wife
C
And though she sees your dreams go poorly
D G
Still she joins your story of a life
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[Verse 3]
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So you settle down and the children come
Em
And you find a place that you come from
Am
Your wandering is done
C
And all your dreams of open spaces
D
You find in your children's faces
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One by one
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And all the trips you know you missed
Em
And all the lips you never kissed
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Cut through you like a knife
C D
And now you see stretched out before thee
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Just another story of a life
[Bridge]
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So what do you do now?
Em
When she looks at you now?
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You know those same old jokes all the jesters tell
G
You tell them to her now
F
And all the same old songs all the minstrels sang
G
You sing 'em to her now
D
But it don't matter anyhow
Em
'Cause she knows by now
[Verse 4]
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So every chance you take don't mean a thing
Em
What variations can you bring
Am
To this shop worn melody
C
And the years roll by like a tollin' bell
D
It's battered merchandise you sell
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Not well she can see
G
And though she's heard it all a thousand times
Em
Couched in your attempted rhymes
Am
She'll march to your drum and fife
C
But the question that goes up before me
D G
Where's my magic story of a life?
[Verse 5]
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Now sometimes words can serve me well
Em
Sometimes words can go to hell
Am
For all that they do
C
And for every dream that took me high
D
There's been a dream that's passed me by
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I know it's so true
G
And I can see it clear out to the end
Em
And I'll whisper to her now again
Am
Because she shared my life
C
For more than all the ghosts of glory
D
She makes up the story
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She's the only story
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Of my life
