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Al Stewart - If It Doesnt Come Naturally Leave It Bass

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If It Doesnt Come Naturally Leave It Bass

(ver. 1)
Al Stewart
INTRO
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00:14
VERSE 1
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Nothing that's forced can ever be right

If it doesn't come naturally, leave it  
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That's what she said as she turned out the light

And we bent our backs as slaves of the night
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she lowered her guard showed me the scars  She got from trying to fight,  Saying oh, you'd better believe it.
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BREAK
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00:44
VERSE 2
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Well I'm up to my neck in the crumbling wreckage  Of all that I wanted from life  
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When I looked for respect all I got was neglect
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Though I swallowed the lign as a sign of the times
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But dealing a jack from the back of the pack,   
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 They said   "You lose again"      Oh,     I said, who needs it
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01:11
CHORUS
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  Well don't get me wrong now I tried to get on, With the jokers that got in my way
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  And I put on a smile and I tried all the while to be  straight, 
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  But they just wanted more all the time and I'm sure, That you know what I mean when I say
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  That I'm sick of the touch and there's only so much you can take.
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01:40
VERSE 3
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  Well nothing that's real is ever for free,  And you just have to pay for it sometime
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  She said it before, she said it to me

  I suppose she believed there was nothing to see
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  But the same old four imaginary walls She built for living inside   I said oh,   you just can't mean it
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BREAK
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02:11
SOLO
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02:24
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02:41
CHORUS
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  Well there was never a doubt that she had to get out, she was just looking around for a way
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  In the pit of the night there was nowhere to hide any more
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  She was out on a limb, she was reaching for things, That she wanted, but just couldn't say
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  And she had to be sure that she wouldn't get caught like before.
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03:09
VERSE 4                                          
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  Well nothing that's forced can ever be right, If it doesn't come naturally, leave it
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  That's what she said as she turned out the light, 

  And she may have been wrong, and she may have been right
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But I woke with the frost, and noticed she'd lost, The veil that covered her eyes, I said oh, you can....... 
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BREAK
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03:40
SOLO 2
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E|------------------|     Solo and fade out.....
            
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