Burning Herself chords and lyrics - HARRY CHAPIN

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[Intro 1]
[Am][D][F][Am]

[Verse 1]
She was [Am]crazy
(she was beautiful),
I [E]guess she had to be.
I was [Am]angry (you were [E]blind),
Because I could not see.
[Dm]I saw only what her cigarettes
had [Am]done to her skin.
I should [G]have known the outside world
Would re[C]veal what was [F]within.
[Am]She was burning herself,
And her hair was filled with ashes.
She was burning herself,
And her life becomes a flame.
She was burning herself,
[D]And the flame became her passion.
[Am]She [D]was [Am]burning [F]her self[Am],[F]
And her passion,
[Am]Her [D]pass[F]ion was her pa[G]in.[Am]
She was trusting (you could
have saved her too),
[E]All hope had passed for her.
I was [Am]lusting (and she gave to you),
[E]That's all I asked for her.
The mark[Dm]s upon her body
And [Am]the marks upon her mind.
[G]I could have erased them
If I'd [C]only [F]taken the [Am]time.[C][Am]
[D][Am][F][Am][D]
[F][G][Am][G][Am]
I never saw her [E]do it,
I [Am]only saw the scars.
I never could imagine
What would make her go that far.
[G]I wondered,
Was she driven by desperate
need to feel,
[Am]To find out she was living,
To discover life was real.
Or [D]was it that the pain
Slicing through her like a knife
Was [E]easier to take
Than the emptiness of life?
Had [F]a strange sense of drama
Caught her in a role,
Or [G]was she trying to cauterize
[E]The chancres on her sole?
I don't know
I don't know

[Outro 1]
I don't know
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