Intro: C G Am F G
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Leave the bright blue door on the whitewashed wall
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Leave the death ledger under city hall
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Leave the joyful air in that rubber ball today

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Leave the lilac print on the linen sheet
            C    G    Am            F        G
Leave the birds you killed at your father's feet
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Let the sideways rain and the crooked street remain

           C     G    Am        F      G 
Leave the whimpering dog in his cold kennel
           C    G   Am        F    G
Leave the dead starlet on her pedestal
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Leave the acid kids in their green fishbowls today

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Just leave the sad guitar in its hardshell case
           C   G   Am           F       G
Leave the worried look on your lover's face
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Let the orange embers in the fireplace remain

   Am                       F
Everything it must belong somewhere
    Am                          F                     G
A train off in the distance, bicycle chained to the stairs
 Am    G       C             F
Everything it must belong somewhere
   G
I know that now, that is why I'm staying here


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C G Am F

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Leave the ocean's roar in the turquoise shell
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Leave the widower in his private hell
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Leave the liberty in that broken bell today

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Leave the epic poem on its yellowed page
           C   G  Am         F       G 
Leave the gray macaw in its covered cage
          Am  G    C           F    G         C G Am F G
Let the traveling band on the interstate remain

  Am                          F
Everything it must belong somewhere
       Am                      F                  G
Sound stage in California, televisions in Times Square
 Am    G       C             F
Everything it must belong somewhere
   G                                     Am
I know that now that is why I'm staying here
         F                      G
Yeah, I know that now, that is why I'm staying here


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C G Am F

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Leave the secret talks on the trundle bed
           C  G   Am            F      G
Leave the garden tools in that rusted shed
            Am   G  C          F        G       C G Am F G
Leave those bad ideas in your troubled head today

           C   G    Am          F    G
Leave the restless ghost in his old hotel
           C   G   Am           F         G
Leave the homeless man in that cardboard cell
         Am  G    C           F   G        C G Am F G
Let the painted horse on the carousel remain

  Am                         F
Everything it must belong somewhere
               Am                             F            G
Just like the gold around her finger or the silver in his hair
 Am    G       C             F
Everything it must belong somewhere
   G                                     Am
I know that now, that's why I'm staying here
   F                     G                 C
I know that now, that's why I'm staying here

    Em               Am     
In truth the forest hears each sound
       F               G
Each blade of grass as it lies down
      Em                Am
The world requires no audience
      F            Fm
No witnesses, no witnesses


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C G Am F

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Leave the old town drunk on his wooden stool
           C  G    Am             F        G
Leave the autumn leaves in their swimming pool
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Leave the poor black child in his crumbling school today

          C  G  Am         F        G
Leave the novelist in his daydream tune
          C  G  Am          F       G
Leave the scientist in his Rubik's cube
         Am   G  C          F      G        C G Am F G
Let the true genius in the padded room remain

           C  G    Am           F      G
Leave the horse's hair on the slanted bow
           C    G   Am          F    G
Leave the slot machines on the riverboat
           Am  G  C           F    G       C G Am F G
Leave the cauliflower in the casserole today

           C    G     Am           F         G
Leave the hot bright trash in the shopping malls
           C    G  Am       F     G
Leave the hawks of war in their capitol
        Am  G    C            F    G       C G Am F G
Let the organ's moan in the cathedral remain

  Am                         F
Everything it must belong somewhere
                 Am                              F            G
They locked the Devil in the basement, threw God up into the air
 Am    G       C             F
Everything it must belong somewhere
         G                                     Am
And you know it's true, I wish you'd leave me here
     F                   G                   Am E F
You know it's true, why don't you leave me here?