Capo 2nd fret

Standard (EADGBE)

Every step of the way

 We walk the line

 Your days are numbered

 So are mine

 Time is piling up

 We struggle and we scrape

 We’re all boxed in

Nowhere to escape

 City's just a jungle

 More games to play

 I'm trapped in the heart of it

 Trying to get away

 I was raised in the country

 Been working in the town

 I been in trouble since I

Set my suitcase down

I ain't got nothing for you

 I had nothing before

 Don't even do anything

 For myself anymore

 Sky's full of fire

 Rain pouring down

 There's nothing you can sell me

 So I'll see you around

All my powers of expression

 And thoughts so sublime

 Could never do you justice

 In reason or rhyme

 Well there's only one thing I did wrong

 I stayed in Mississippi a day too long

The devil's in the alley, mule kicking in the stall

 Say anything you wanna, I've heard it all

 I was thinking about the things that you said

 I was dreaming I was sleeping in your bed

Walking through the leaves, falling from the trees

Feelin' like a stranger nobody sees

Well so many things we never will undo

 I know you're sorry, well I'm sorry too

Some people'll offer you their hand and some won't

 Last night I knew you, tonight I don't

 I need something strong to distract my mind

 I'm gonna look at you 'til my eyes go blind

Well I got here, following the southern star

 I crossed that river just to be where you are

 There's only one thing that I did wrong

 I stayed in Mississippi a day too long

 Well my ship's been split to splinters; it's sinking fast

 I'm drowning in the poison, got no future, got no past

 But my heart is not weary, and smiling's free

 I've got nothing but affection for those who've sailed with me

 Everybody's moving if they ain't already there

 Everybody's got to move somewhere

 Well stick with me baby anyhow

 Things should start to get interesting right about now

My clothes are wet, tight on my skin

 Not as tight as the corner that I painted myself in

 I know that fortune is waiting to be kind

 So give me your hand and say you'll be mine

The emptiness is endless, gold is gray

 You can always go back, but you can't go back all the way

 Well there's only one thing that I did wrong

 I stayed in Mississippi a day too long

 Yeah the only thing that I did wrong

 Was stayed in Mississippi a day too long

 The only thing that I did wrong

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Was stayed in Mississippi a day too long