Shamrock Diaries

Chris Rea

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1. In waves of people you can lose your feet
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   You’ve got to stay hard to the ground
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   It gets so easy now to lose your way
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   When you’re ever outward bound
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   A church bell ringing in the fading light
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   Stops you dead like a cold steel wall
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   The ghost of yester-years is touching you
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   And as sure as god you’ll fall
   
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R1: And I see you
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    And I see me
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    I see it all
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    Like it used to be

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2. And all the reasons why you started out
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   They hit you hard with every bell
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   The choir practice in the empty hall
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   Is a sound you know so well
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   Like something lost inside your overcoat
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   You find it later by mistake
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   You lost it all a thousand years ago
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   And you pray it’s not too late

R2: And I see you
    And I see me
    I see it all like a diary

R1: And I see you...

3. I’m gonna write it in a diary
   Now I remember everything
   Yeah I remember how it used to be
   With every note that choir boy sings

R2: And I see you...