Key: G
Introduction: Em7
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I know a man with nothing in his hands,
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Nothing but a rolling stone
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He told me 'bout when his house burnt down,
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He lost everything he owned
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He lay asleep for six whole weeks,
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They were gonna ask his mother to choose
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When he woke up with nothing he said I'll tell something
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When you've got nothing, you've got nothing to lose
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Now I've got a hole in my pocket,
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A hole in my shirt,
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A whole lot of trouble, he said
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But now the money is gone, well life carries on
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And I miss it like a hole in the head
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I know a woman with kids around her ankles
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And a baby on her lap
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She said one day her husband went to get a paper
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And the motherf**ker never came back
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Mortgage to pay and four kids to raise,
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But keeping wolf from the door
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She said the wolf's just a puppy and the door's double locked
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So why you gotta worry me for
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Now he left a hole in my heart
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A hole in a promise
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A hole on the side of my bed
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But now that he's gone well life carries on
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And I miss him like a hole in the head
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D
Well sometimes you can't change and you can't choose
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And sometimes it seems you gain less than you lose
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Now we've got holes in our hearts
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D
Yeah we've got holes in our lives
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C
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Well we've got holes we got holes but we carry on
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Am
C
Say we've got holes in our hearts
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Yeah we've got holes in our lives
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Well we've got holes we got holes but we carry on
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