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Spent the night with a friend of mine, and a handle of good wiskey
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We picked guitars and talked about how the glory days went missin'
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D/F#
Em
It didn't take to long to find the truth inside that bottle
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Cast a sea, so long ago, was a message from my father
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You keep your heart above your head, and your eyes wide open
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So this world can't find a way to leave you cold
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And know you're not the only ship out on the ocean
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Save your strength for things that you can change
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Forgive the one's you can't
You gotta let it go
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Looking back now on my life I can't say I regret it
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And all the places I ended up, not the way Ma woulda had it
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-D/F#
-Em
But you only get once chance in life to leave your mark upon it
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So when that pony he comes riding by you better set your sweet ass on it
Chorus
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Like a sweet sunset in Georgia let it go
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and like the fear that grabs ahold ya
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let it go
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you let it go