Ray Wylie Hubbard - The Real Trick Chords

[Intro]
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[Verse]
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Christopher turned sixteen on a chemical dependency wing
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And on family week his mama come up and she says "I ain't gonna stay for this whole thing"
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She says "I've got more important things to do than to listen to this ungrateful son"
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Chris said "If being a parent's so tough how come just anybody can be one?"
 
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Sweet Melissa, she turned her first trick at seventeen
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For some backstage passes and some hash that's in the back of a limousine
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And now she's seen it all and she don't want to be here or even anywhere
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And at twenty-two she's got what the boys down at the VA call the "thousand-yard stare"
 
[Chorus]
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But the real trick is to find a reason to believe in spite of all of this
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And the big secret is, what you're lookin' for, you're lookin' with
 
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Miss Helen Petty, she lost her husband of forty-two years
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Now she don't know what to do with herself and she just can't seem to stop the tears
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And she can't sleep at night and she is so afraid and so alone
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But there are these bastards who take advantage of these precious souls
 
[Verse]
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Like, there's this man on Sunday morning on TV who jumps around and screams and shouts
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And he says to get me into heaven is the only thing that he is about
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But to get there I've got to believe what he believes
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Well if that's the case I believe I'll take my chances when it's time for me to leave
 
[Chorus]
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But the real trick is to find a reason to believe in spite of all of this
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And the big secret is, what you're lookin' for, you're lookin' with
 
[Interlude]
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[Verse]
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We're all lengthening shadows cast by a sinking sun
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So we need this reason to believe in something or someone
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It is so hard to accept these many things on faith alone
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And we feel betrayed by life when the infidelity is our own
 
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I don't concern myself with how Jesus was born or if he was raised from the dead
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I believe what it comes down to was the things that he said
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 So many more than Judas has betrayed his name
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This beautiful ancient wisdom's been prostituted for personal gain
 
[Chorus]
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But the real trick is to find a reason to believe in spite of all of this
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And the big secret is, what you're lookin' for, you're lookin' with
 
[Outro]
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