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If I Could Make It by Kevin Max
If I Could Make It
Bm Bm/A G D A A/C# A#dim Em F# F#m A#
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A|--2----0-----2----x----0----4------1-----2-----4-----4----1--|
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Verse 1
Bm Bm/A G D A A/C# A#dim
I sit on a piano stool and I make up songs for these men who
G D A A/C#
come in with dust on their faces and mud on their boots
Em G F#
From these places that I'll never go.
Bm Bm/A G D A A/C#
I sleep in a rented bed with a woman who gives me
A#dim G D A A/C#
what little I get of the love that we'd like to imagine is left
Em G F#
Of the love that we never did know
G D A
I slip out and scribble a note that reads like a million books
Em (F#m) G (G/F#) Em F#
It's a four cent nickel for my dime store theme, but it sure reads good
Chorus 1
Bm G D
And If I could make it work in life
A
Like it works on paper
A# F
If the love that I describe
Gm A
Could be anything but words
Bm G
Then I would wipe my eyes I'd dry this ink
Bm G
I'd trade my pen in on a pair of wings
D A
And I would... I would fly
Em G F# Bm
If I could only make it work in life
Verse2
Bm/A G D A A/C# A#dim
And at the end of every night I add up the tips that I count for what might
G D A A/C#
not come down to a thing that amounts to a lie
Em G F#
And the sum of it all I'm afraid
Bm Bm/A G D A A/C# A#dim
Is less then what I know I need to slip beneath the surface of my forgeries
G D A A/C#
Where I buried my hopes where sometimes my dreams
Em G F#
Still stir me and steal me away.
G D A
And I can still hear Dineh Bikeyah call just like we were kids
Em (F#m) G (G/F#) Em F#
I could tell you all about it in a song But Lord I wish...
Chorus2
Bm G D
...that I could make it work in life
A
Like it works on paper
A# F
If the love that I describe
Gm A
Could be anything but words
Bm G
Then I would wipe my eyes I'd dry this ink
Bm G
I'd trade my pen in on a pair of wings
D A
And I would... Fly
Em G F# Bm Bm/A G D
If I could only make it work in life
A A/C# G Em Bm
If I could only make it work... in life.
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