What They Say - Chris Smithers (C)

[Intro]
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[Verse 1]
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They say the good die young but it ain't for certain.
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I bin good all day. I ain't hurtin'.
C
Not in any way.
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I'm too old to die young.
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I shouldn't talk too loud.
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Bad luck is preying on the proud ones.
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There's nothin' like lying in a graveyard
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To teach you to hold your tongue.
 
[Interlude]
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[Verse 2]
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They say the Devil was an angel back in the beginnin'
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So was I. Nobody's pinnin' any hopes on me.
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I ain't sayin' that they ought'a.
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I didn't wanna change but the road kept slidin' in a funny way
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And I kept ridin' on it anyway.
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Sometimes you do what you gott'a.
 
[Bridge]
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What they say. What they do.
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They'll swear it is. They'll think it's true.
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When they think at all but they ain't willin'.
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If they cain't think of what to say, they talk anyway.
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It's all cliché, fast food for the brain but not too fillin'.
 
[Interlude]
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[Verse 3]
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They say time and tide will wait for no-one.
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The time it takes one tide to go one time
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Around the world would leave you spinnin'
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But the race is on between the tide
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And the people livin' right beside it.
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No-one's drownin' yet but they ain't winnin'.
 
[Outro]
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If words were wisdom, we'd all speak
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And smarten up from week to week
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Just sayin' "live and learn". There's nothin' to it.
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Friends in need are friends indeed
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But the friends who think of what we need
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They hardly talk at all. They just do it.
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They hardly talk at all. They just do it.