[Intro] 
Amaj7Dmaj7 Now pretty baby, I'm running back home to you
Amaj7Dmaj7 Fresh out the slammer, I know who my first call will be to
Amaj7 Fresh out the slammer
 [Verse 1] 
Amaj7 Another summer taking cover
F#m7Dmaj7A Rolling thunder, he don't understand me
Amaj7F#m7Dmaj7 Splintered back in winter, silent dinner
Bitter he was with her in dreams 
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Amaj7 Grey and blue and fights in tunnels
F#m7 Handcuffed to the spell I was under
Dmaj7A For just one hour of sunshine
 
Amaj7 Years of labor, locks, and ceilings
F#m7 In the shade of how he was feeling
Dmaj7A It's gonna be alright, I did my time
 [Chorus] 
Amaj7Dmaj7 Now pretty baby, I'm running back home to you
Amaj7Dmaj7 Fresh out the slammer, I know who my first call will be to
Amaj7 Fresh out the slammer
 [Verse 2] 
Amaj7 Camera flashes, welcome bashes
F#m7Dmaj7A Get the matches, toss the ashes off the ledge
 
Amaj7F#m7 As I said in my letters, now that I know better
Dmaj7A I will never lose my baby again
 
Amaj7 My friends tried but I wouldn't hear it
F#m7 Watched me daily disappearing
Dmaj7A For just one glimpse of his smile
 
Amaj7 All those nights he kept me going
F#m7 Swirled you into all of my poems
Dmaj7A Now we're at the starting line, I did my time
 [Chorus] 
Amaj7F#m7Dmaj7 Now pretty baby, I'm running to the house we still wait up in
A That porch light gleams
 
Amaj7F#m7 To the one who says I'm the girl of his American dreams
Dmaj7 And no matter what I've done, it wouldn't matter anyway
AAmaj7 Ain't no way I'm gonna screw up now that I know what's at stake
 
Amaj7F#m7Dmaj7 Here at the park where we used to sit on children's swings
AAmaj7F#m7 Wearing imaginary rings
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