The Obvious Child

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Well, I'm accustomed to a smooth ride

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Or maybe I'm a dog who's lost its bite

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I don't expect to be treated like a fool no more

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  I don't expect to sleep through the night

     D      C     G       D       G
Some people say a lie's a lie's a lie

    D G   C
But I say why

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Why deny the obvious child?

              F       C      G  
 Why deny the obvious child?


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And in remembering a road sign

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  I am remembering a girl when I was young

F C        G          D         G
    And we said These songs are true

      D        G
These days are ours

      D         G
These tears are free

    D  G 
And hey

C                     F   C    
  The cross is in the ballpark

                     F   C    G  
 The cross is in the ballpark


    
We had a lot of fun

                       D C 
We had a lot of money

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We had a little son and we thought we'd call him Sonny

           D           G          
Sonny gets married and moves away

C           D        G            
Sonny has a baby and bills to pay

C          D       
Sonny gets sunnier

G             C      D   
Day by day by day by day


G                     
  Doh, doh,  doh, doh

                     
 Doh, doh,  doh, doh


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 Well, I've been waking up at sunrise

           D             G      D        G
 I've been following the light across my room

  D     G   C                 F       C  G  D  
I watch the night receive the room of my day

G      D      C       G      D        G
  Some people say the sky is just the sky

    D G   
But I say

C              F       C      
  Why deny the obvious child?

              F       C      
 Why deny the obvious child?



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Sonny sits by his window and thinks to himself

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 How it's strange that some rooms are like cages

    D    G   C    G    D   
 Sonny's yearbook from high school

   C             
Is down from the shelf

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And he id-ly thumbs through the pages

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 Some have died

           G                    
 Some have fled from themselves

    C    G    D    G    D  G   D     
 Or struggled from here to get there

 C     G  C    G D          C      
 Sonny wanders beyond his interior walls

         G    C       G   D              C    
Runs his hand through his thinning brown hair


                          G           
Well, I'm accustomed to a smooth ride

   D           G         D        G
Or maybe I'm a dog who's lost its bite

          D       G  C                      F
I don't expect to be treated like a fool no more

C           G       D                 D
  I don't expect to sleep through the night

     D      C     G       D       G
Some people say a lie's a lie's a lie

    D G   
But I say 

C                     F   C    
  the cross is in the ballpark

              F C     G                  
 Why deny the obvious    child?