Intro: 
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Verse 
D              E 
Like a bolt of lightning 
               A 
Like a bolt of thunder 
D             E 
Like a cloudy day 
            A 
Down at the zoo 
D               E 
Like a drowning man 
                   A 
That will never go under 
              D    G 
That close to you, yeah, 
              D 
that close to you 

Bridge 
F#m 
In the middle of the night 
                G 
You'd ask me to make you smile 
                     D 
You'd come on like a one-armed child 
                   A          A7 
With a hole in its shoe, poor you 
F#m 
Everybody oughta know 
                       G 
It only hurts ya for a little while 
                D 
So stop putting yourself on trial 
                         A 
For something you didn't do 
    A7 
Not you, to me, can't we be just like 


[Refrão]
D          E                        A 
Lovers and mothers and brothers and sorrow 
D                   E                      A 
Can I find a little something with a nicer view 
D             E                        A 
I'm hating to plead but I'm begging to borrow 
                         D 
Just to be that close to you 
G                   D 
Yeah, that close to you 

Bridge 
F#m 
In the middle of the night 
                G 
You'd ask me to make you smile 
                     D 
You'd come on like a one-armed child 
                   A          A7 
With a hole in its shoe, poor you 
F#m 
Everybody oughta know 
                       G 
It only hurts ya for a little while 
                D 
So stop putting yourself on trial 
                         A 
For something you didn't do 
    A7 
Not you, to me, can't we be just like 


[Refrão]
D          E                        A 
Lovers and mothers and brothers and sorrow 
D                   E                      A 
Can I find a little something with a nicer view 
D             E                        A 
I'm hating to plead but I'm begging to borrow 
                         D 
Just to be that close to you 
G                   D 
Yeah, that close to you 
G                 D 
Oh, that close to you 
G                   D 
Yeah, that close to you 

outro 
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