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To Live Is To Fly

Cowboy Junkies
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D-DU-UDU
Won't  say I love  you babe
Won't  say I need  you babe
But  I'm going to get  you babe
 and I will  not do you wrong
Living's  mostly wasting  time
and  I waste my share  of mine
but  it never feels  too good
 so let's  not take too long
 You're soft  as glass  and I'm a  gentle man
we  got the sky to talk  about
 and the world  to lie upon
 Days up and down they come
 like rain on a conga drum
 forget most, remember some
 but don't turn none away.
 Everything is not enough
 nothing is too much to bear
 where you been is good and gone
 all you keep's the getting there.
 To live is to fly low and high
 so shake the dust off of your wings
 and the sleep out of your eyes.
 It's goodbye to all my friends
 It's time to go again
 Think of all the poetry
 and the pickin' down the line.
 I'll miss the system here
 the bottom's low and the treble's clear
 but it don't pay to think too much
 on the things you leave behind.
 I may be gone but I won't be long
 I'll be bringing back the melody
 and the rhythm that I find.
 We all got holes to fill
 and them holes are all that's real
 some fall on you like a storm
 sometimes you dig your own
 But choice is yours to make
 time is yours to take
 some dive into the sea
 some toil upon the stone.
 To live is to fly low and high
 so shake the dust off of your wings
 and the sleep out of your eyes.

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Readable chord sheet for To Live Is To Fly by Cowboy Junkies

[G] [D] [G] [D] [D] [A] [G] [D]

[G] [D] [G] [A] [D] [A] [G] [D]

[G]Won't say I [D]love you babe
[G]Won't say I [D]need you babe
[D]But I'm going to [A]get you babe
and I wi[G]ll not do you wr[D]ong

[G]Living's mostly [D]wasting time
[G]and I waste my s[D]hare of mine
[D]but it never fee[A]ls too good
so [G]let's not take too lo[D]ng

You're s[G]oft as g[D]lass and I'm a[G] gentle [A]man
[D]we got the sky to [A]talk about
and the [G]world to lie [D]upon

Days up and down they come
like rain on a conga drum
forget most, remember some
but don't turn none away.
Everything is not enough
nothing is too much to bear
where you been is good and gone
all you keep's the getting there.
To live is to fly low and high
so shake the dust off of your wings
and the sleep out of your eyes.

It's goodbye to all my friends
It's time to go again
Think of all the poetry
and the pickin' down the line.
I'll miss the system here
the bottom's low and the treble's clear
but it don't pay to think too much
on the things you leave behind.
I may be gone but I won't be long
I'll be bringing back the melody
and the rhythm that I find.

We all got holes to fill
and them holes are all that's real
some fall on you like a storm
sometimes you dig your own
But choice is yours to make
time is yours to take
some dive into the sea
some toil upon the stone.
To live is to fly low and high
so shake the dust off of your wings
and the sleep out of your eyes.

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