Ramshackle Glory - Bitter Old Man Chords

INTRO

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i was born a bitter old man who got his heart broken in catalonia, 1936.
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i haven’t felt right since, so i gave up on life before i arrived. 
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i knew this place wasn’t safe for anyone but fascists and republicans and their apologists. 
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but i swear to god, i’m gonna die full of naive optimism; a teenager’s heartbreaking conviction 
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that things can be different. oh yeah, things are gonna be real different when we’re finished
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 around here. 
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i always wanted to die young. 
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i always wanted to die young. 
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i always wanted to die young; 
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now i feel younger every day, and i just hope i die younger than i am. 
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i can hear you from a dozen states away 
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shivering through a dope sick morning of no money left and nothing else to steal. 
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lord only knows that i’ve had my share, because there were years when i was ready to die, 
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but it’s only been recently that i’ve been willing to live. 
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and i swear to god, i didn’t plan for things to end up this way. 
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i had a teenager’s conviction that i would be different. 
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oh yeah, i was gonna be real different than the person i became. 

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i always wanted to die young. 
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i always wanted to die young. 
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i always wanted to die young; 
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now i feel younger every day, and i just hope i die younger than i am.  
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but now living’s a struggle, except when it isn’t. (yeah), 
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i woke up this morning and i wasn’t in prison, 
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but i can’t promise that i’m far from it. 
                                                   
i’d still kill a man for cigarette, 
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but with friends like you, who needs homicide? 
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so this song goes out to all our homies locked down. 
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come on back now, we need you around. 
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that judge, he doesn’t know what he’s done. 
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no, judges never know the things they do. how could they?