Everyday I Write The Book (Play Along)

Everyday I Write The Book / Elvis Costello

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Everyday I Write The Book


Don't  tell me you don't know what love is
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When you're old enough to know better
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When you find strange hands in your sweater
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When your dreamboat turns out to be a Footnote
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I'm a man with a mission in two or three Editions
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And    I'm giving you a long look
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Everyday, everyday, everyday, Everyday I Write The Book
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Chapter One    We didn't really get along
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Chapter Two    I think I fell in love with you
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You said you'd stand by me in the middle of Chapter Three
-4   5*   5*     5*  5* 5* 3* 3*  5* 5* -5*  6  -5*   5*

But you were up to your old tricks in Chapters Four, Five and Six
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And    I'm giving you a long look
3*-2*2  3* -4 -3   3*-2*  2   -2*

Everyday, everyday, everyday, Everyday I Write The Book
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The way you walk,  the way you talk, and try to kiss me, and laugh
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In four or five Paragraphs
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All your compliments and your cutting remarks
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Are captured here in Quotation Marks
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And    I'm giving you a long look
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Everyday, everyday, everyday, Everyday I Write The Book
 3*-3 -4   3*-3 -4  3*-3 -4   3*-3 -4 -3   3*  -2* -2* 2   4*  -5*

Everyday       I   Write The Book
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Don't tell me you don't know the difference
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Between a lover and a fighter
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With my Pen and my Electric Typewriter
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Even  in a perfect world where everyone was equal
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I'd still own the Film Rights and be working on the Sequel
-3    3*  -2*  3*  3*   -2*    2  2   3*  3* -4 -4   4* 3*


And    I'm giving you a long look
3*-2*2  3* -4 -3   3*-2*  2   -2*

Everyday, everyday, everyday, Everyday I Write The Book
 3*-3 -4   3*-3 -4  3*-3 -4   3*-3 -4 -3   3*  -2* -2* 2

Everyday, everyday, Everyday I Write The Book
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Everyday, everyday,  Everyday I Write The Book
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Everyday, everyday, everyday, Everyday I Write The Book
 3*-3 -4   3*-3 -4  3*-3 -4   3*-3 -4 -3   3*  -2* -2* 2

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