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If It Takes A Lifetime Tabs

(ver. 1)
Jason Isbell
[Intro]
 
  x3
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                                         I've
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[Verse 1]
  Been working here...
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  Monday It will be a year
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And I can't recall a day when I didn't want to
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 Disappear                               But I keep
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 On showing up,                      hell bent on
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  growing up                      If it takes a
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  Lifetime
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                                I'm learning how to
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[Verse 2]
  Be alone                    Fall asleep with the
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  TV on                                    and I
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   fight the urge to live inside my
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   telephone                       But I keep my
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   spirits high                    find happiness
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  by and by                         If it takes a
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   lifetime
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                                       And I got
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[Chorus 1]
  Too from my rasing and I
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  forgot where I come from               and the
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  line between right and wrong was
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  so fine                                     And I
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  thought the highway loved me but she
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   beat me like a drum                          My
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   Day will come if it takes a
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  lifetime
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[Post-Chorus]
  x3
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                                     I don't keep
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[Verse 3]
  liquor here                    Never cared for
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  wine or beer                            And
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  Working for the county keeps me
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   p**sin clear                     The nights are
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   dry as dust                 But I'm letting my
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  eyes adjust                       If it takes a
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  Lifetime
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                                       And I got
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  Too from my rasing and I
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  forgot where I come from               and the
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  line between right and wrong was
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  so fine                                     And I
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  thought the highway loved me but she
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   beat me like a drum                          My
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   Day will come if it takes a
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  lifetime
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[Bridge]
 
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                                         Man is a
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[Verse 4]
  product of              all the people that he
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  ever loved                                  And
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  It don't make a difference how it
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  ended up                        If I loved you
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  once my friend                    I can do it
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  all again                         If it takes a
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  Lifetime
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                                         And I got
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  Too from my rasing and we
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  fought til we went numb                You were
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  running up running up the mountain in your
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  own mind                                  And I
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  thought that I was running to but I was
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   running from                               My
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   Day will come if it takes a
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  lifetime                                    My
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   Day will come if it takes a
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  lifetime
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