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"Mortal Groove" - John Gorka from "Between Five and Seven" 1996

C
It's half price off on last year's model

          F
There's a geeseful sky and roads of potholes

    C
The town is lean and getting leaner
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      F                            C   G5/B
There is a rank and file demeanor


C
Countless souls in unkind places

F
Wearing fixed and angry faces

  C
I tell myself I don't belong

      F
But I am a ghost in this prayer gone wrong 

C                  G5/B               F              G       Am   G   G7 
Prayer gone wrong, prayer gone wrong, prayer gone wrong...


There's a new restaurant and a new coffee shop
It seems this street is looking up
The new sign says there's "No Smoking"
"No shirt, no service" and "Spanish Spoken"

This town was built on steel blue collars
It now competes for the tourist dollars
Love may make the world go roung
But like gravity here we're still money bound
Money bound, money bound, money bound...

There's talkshow hosts and wartime markers
Ways of thinking that force the darkness
Bus stations have sad reputations
Coin laundry, pawnshop conversations

Each year this time I hit this mood
It's cabin fever or the mortal groove
Before the spring, before winter's done
When something's lost or just hasn't come

C               G5/B         F         G    Am  G7  F  C  
It hasn't come, hasn't come, hasn't come...