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When you walked with me
C
away from the strip mall bar
C/BAm
across the highway
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to that little graveyard
G
Where plastic flowers
C
bloomed in yellow grass
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we sat on a broken bench
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listening to the cars pass
G
And right above your head
C
in the branches of a tree
C/BAm
there were white lights
DGD
swaying slowly in the breeze
Em
There were white lights,
Bm
white lights,
C
white lights
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swaying in a tree
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I know they were there
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to stop kids kicking over graves
AmD
or spray-painting tree trunks
CG
with their favorite rock band's name
G
But sitting there with you
C
almost touching your white hand
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among the broken bottles
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crushed and faded cans
Em
And those white lights,
Bm
white lights,
C
white lights
AmEm
swaying in the breeze
Em/F#G
There was mystery
CC/B
singing from everything
AmD
the strip mall, the highway
CG
the boarded-up skating rink
G
They were calling our names
C
in the strip mall parking lot
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our sweet drunken friends
DGD
finally noticing we'd gone
G
But we just sat there
C
not saying anything
C/BAmD
almost touching hands your hair
CGD
flying in the highway breeze
Em
Like those white lights,
Bm
white lights,
C
white lights
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swaying in a tree
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