Intro

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fingerpicking


A Starfish in the Front Yard

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I saved this song for a rainy day
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and I think we're gonna be okay
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cause I've got nothing witty left to say
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just to stand around and talk about the weather

the fingerpicking changes to slap-pluck style
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and we know, that there's no sense in so much arguing
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the world is ending, and no one's listening
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'cause we've things between you and me, and god it seems
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that everything is always stuck between what's really happening
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and then our voices hit and it's just "ohh…"
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and that's the price of it, and it's just "ohh…"
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and everyday that it goes away, and it's like we say, and it's not okay
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and all we're left with here today is one last "ohh…"

Am - Am - Em - Em - F - F - C - G 

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this song is easier than it probably seems,
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but in my life, I've said a lot of things that I don't mean
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to try and win you over, to try to know my dreams,
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and some of the lies that I tried to hide, well their hidden still from me

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and there's a starfish in the front yard, yeah
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and he's sitting there talking 'bout the way, how on a rainy day
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even starfish wind up in the front yard, talkin' how the road was hard
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that brought him from the ocean to our lawn on Ambar Way

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and then our voices hit and it's just "ohh…"
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we're gonna pay the price of it tonight "ohh…"
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and there he's lying there and dying, air is drying out his hide
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I think I see a starfish smiling, crying out "ohh…"

Am - Am - Em - Em - F - F - C - G 

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Come with me down to the sea, by santa cruz
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and we can float on funnel cakes, and drown ourselves in booze
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sitting in a motel 6, but we'll never leave the room
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we're singing about those secret things that keep these songs in tune

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and then our voices hit and it's just "ohh…"
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we're gonna pay the price of it tonight "ohh…"
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and everyday that it goes away, and it's like we say, and it's not okay
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and all we're left with here today is one last "ohh…"

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I saved this song for a rainy day
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and I think we're gonna be okay
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cause I've got nothing witty left to say
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just to stand around and talk about the weather…