vamp: 
 Bb6 Eb6     Bb Eb6    Bb6 Eb6     Bb 
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               Bb           Eb                      Fsus 
What you hold back from the minute, the minute will lack 
              Bb                Eb                          Bb 
If you don't claim it from the hour then the hour takes it back 
        Gm7              Eb                           Bb 
All our wants will pass quickly, what remains is our need 
                       Eb6                           Bb 
And mama don't make no medicine that'll cure that disease 
 
Chorus: 
Bb         Eb                    Bb 
Nothing is certain here in this world 
    Gm7            Eb                            Bb 
You drop all your treasures just like slippery pearls 
                        Gm7             Eb            Bb 
Oh, it's hard to find a handle on the things that you see 
                                     Eb                         Bb 
Cause they slide right through your fingers just like slippery pearls 
 
VAMP 
 
What you don't lock up inside your heart the world will consume 
It might slip right down the throat of greed 
Or through the floorboards in your room 
There's two thieves named pain and pleasure and neither one is true 
You ransom your flesh to save your bones 
Then they come and take those too 
 
CHORUS 
VAMP 
 
They don't make a map to guide you through the badlands of the soul 
You could lose yourself to blind conceit or to the hunger for control 
Try to guard it all from the elements and it's still gonna fall apart 
Cause the world outside don't pose no threat 
Like the darkness in our hearts 
 
CHORUS 
repeat CHORUS ad lib and fade