James McMurtry

You Got To Me

James McMurtry


Tom: G

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[Verse]
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To celebrate undying faith, we’re gathered here like drifted wrecks
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for a late September wedding, October breathing down our necks.
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I knew this town in another time. I knew this town a younger man
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with the world in my hip pocket a subway token in my hand.
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          Mmm you got to me.

[Verse]
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And they got candlelight and a reggae band, champagne by the bucket load
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Limos lined up down the curb to take us where we need to go.
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And I need to go somewhere I’ve been to find a place I lost the trail
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Way back then so long ago I don’t suppose you even know

[Chorus]
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You got to me.
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Brought all this empty down on top of me.
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You got to me.

[Verse]
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We danced between the snowflakes falling, tripping on the cobblestones
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And the trolley tracks, we had it all then, Christmas break your roommates gone
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We stoked the fire and let it burn till the embers glowed in the morning light
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Trust in the tangle of skin on skins I’ve not known quite that feeling since

[Chorus]
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You got to me.
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Brought all this empty down on top of me.
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I didn’t know but we were not to be, but I know a thing or two now.

[Verse]
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The wedding party’s raging yet, how the old and desperate misbehave
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Limo smells like cocaine sweat, cheap cologne and aftershave
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It’s gotta be one of these row house doors I knew the number long ago
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I step out on the curb. Tell the driver just go on and go.

[Chorus]
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You got to me.
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Brought all this empty down on top of me.
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I didn’t know but we were not to be, but I know a thing or two now.

[Interlude] 
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[Verse]
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The paper boy wants a smoke, leans his bike against a tree
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He’s tired and cold and broke and he don’t what to make of me
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Standing here in my three piece suit, standing here just like I am
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With my vest unbuttoned and my neck tie loose, impervious to all abuse

[Chorus]
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You got to me.
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Brought all this empty down on top of me.
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Off on a thousand dollar odyssey, and I know a thing or two now.
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Yeah I know a thing or two now.
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Yeah I know a thing or two now.