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Off he goes (4)


Pearl Jam

Off he goes

Tom: C

Intro: (F7M Am) F7M C

F7M C F7M C Am Know a man his face seemed pulled and tense F7M C F7M C F7M C Am Like he's riding on a motorbike in the strongest winds F7M C F7M C So I approach with tact suggest that he should relax F7M C G Am But he's always moving much too fast


Am Said he'll see me on the flipside F7M Am Of this trip he's taken for a ride F7M C F7M C F7M C He's been taking too much on there he goes F7M C G Am F7M C With his perfectly unkept clothes there he goes


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F7M C F7M C He's yet to come back ___ but I see his picture F7M C F7M C Am F7M C ___ He doesn't look the same upon the rack we go way back F7M Am F7M Am I wonder 'bout his insides... it's like his thoughts are too big for his size F7M C F7M C F7M C He's been taken. Where? I don't know off he goes F7M C G Am F7M C With his perfectly unkept hope there he goes

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F7M C F7M C And now I rub my eyes for he has returned F7M C F7MC ___ Seems my preconceptions are what should have been Am burned

F7M C F7M C For he still smiles and he's still strong F7M C F7M C ___ Nothing's changed but the surrounding bullshit. that has Am grown


F7M C F7M C And now he's home and we're laughing F7M C F7M C Am Like we always did. My same old same old friend F7M C F7M C Until a quarter to ten I saw the strain creep in F7M C F7M C ___ He seemed distracted and I know just what is going to Am happen next F7M C F7M C Before his first step he is off again

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