First Aid Kit - Random Rules

(originally by Silver Jews)

[Verse 1]
F Am Bb F
In 1984, I was hospitalized for approaching perfection
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Slowly screwing my way across Europe, they had to make a correction
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Broken and smokin’ where the infrared deer plunge in the digital snake
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I tell you, they make it so you can’t shake hands when they make your hands shake

[Chorus]
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I know you like to line dance
Gm Bb
Everything so democratic and cool
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But, baby, there’s no guidance when random rules

[Verse 2]
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I know that a lot of what I say has been lifted off of men’s room walls
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Well, maybe I’ve crossed the wrong rivers and walked down all the wrong halls
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But nothing can change the fact that we used to share a bed
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That’s why it scared me so when you turned to me and said:

[Bridge]
Gm Bb
“Yeah, you look like someone
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Yeah, you look like someone who up and left me low
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Boy, you look like someone I used to know”

[Verse 3]
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I asked the painter why the roads are colored black
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He said, “Steve, it’s because people leave
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And no highway will bring them back”
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So if you don’t want me, I promise not to linger
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But before I go, I’ve gotta ask you, dear, about that tan line on your ring finger

[Outro]
Gm Bb
No one should have two lives
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Now you know my middle names are Wrong and Right
Gm Bb F
Honey, we’ve got two lives to give tonight
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To give tonight
Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh