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Cruel To Be Kind by John Davey


      Cruel To Be Kind 



Tuning:E A D G B E
Key:C
Capo:no capo

F7   xxx545
E7   020100
E7*  022130
F7*  131231
C*   x32013
Asus x0223x
 
[Verse 1]
C                C7
I watched from a distance
   F              C
As you lit up the room
       C            G
Surely I am not the only one who sees
    F                        C
The light that comes from you
      C                    C7
And although you lost your voice out there
    F               C
You found it in the gravel
       C
By the road of dirt
     G            F        C
That I have often traveled
 
[Chorus]
        Dm              G
Oh, you wretched, vivid thing
C           E      Am   D7 F7
Please stay off my mind
          Dm                E7
Don't you know how cruel it is
         F C
To be so kind?
 
[Verse 2]
        C                 C7
All the jewel and fennel, coriander
    F                  C
You gathered where the brook meandered
         C              F         Fm
Past the fire hydrants, road signs
        C           G
And the phone lines
         C               C7
Past the broken spigots, broken bricks
   F                  Fm
On broken brick roads we won't fix
     C               G
Past schools and cemeteries
       F    C
Public libraries
 
[Interlude]
C E7* Am G F
F7* G C* E7 Am
F G C
 
[Bridge]
         E7
Well you shook and took, forsook me like
  Am         Am/G    F
A storm that knew my name
  E                E7
A wind that grew until it blew
    Am           Am/G F
The storm clouds all away
 
[Chorus]
        Dm              G
Oh, you wretched, vivid thing
C           E      Am    F7
Please stay off my mind
          Dm                E7
Don't you know how cruel it is
         F C
To be so kind?
Asus      Dm                E7
Don't you know how cruel it is
         F C
To be so kind?





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