The Way I Should

The Way I Should - Written by Iris DeMent

>From The Album "The Way I Should" - Iris DeMent

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Capo 4th Fret

 

A cold wind against my shoulder woke me up in the middle of the night

An autumn leaf was scraping against my window

Like it was tryin' hard to get inside

And then a ghost that I had met before he kept me up till dawn

And everything I thought was right was suddenly all wrong

He said "your score is looking pretty bad"

Then he asked me what it was that I had to show

So I went runnin' down a list of things

Some were real, but on some of them I lied

'Cause I felt I had to justify each breath that

I'd been breathin' in this life

Then I realized I was playing into someone else's rules

Tryin' to keep my score up in a game I did not choose

Then I looked that ghost straight in the eye and said

"You'd better not be coming back by again"

And it's true that I don't work near as hard

As you tell me that I'm supposed to

I don't run as fast as I could

But I live just the way I want to

And that's the way I should

 

October's leaves were dancin' 'round

Like angels dressed in robes of red and gold

But November's come and gone now

And they're lyin' in the gutter out along the road

They're gonna make their way out to the ditch or someday to the sea

But they'll get to where they're goin' without the help of you or me

And if each life is just a grain of sand

I'm tellin' you man, this grain of sand is mine

And it's true that I don't work near as hard

As you tell me that I'm supposed to

I don't run as fast as I could

But I live just the way I want to

And that's the way I should

But I live just the way I want to

And that's the way I should

Chords:

C = X32010

D = XX0232

Em = 022000

G = 320033

Transcribed by Jim Sparrow - 5th Feb 1998

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