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"Up Until Then" - by John Gorka

Intro: G  D  C  D

               G           D           C           D       
They dropped a dime on the girl in the parking lot

        G             D      C      D  
Who was looking for a man of steel

          G           D              C       D
Who would fill up her nights with Forget-Me-Nots

        G             D             C    D
And the dreams no one else could reveal

    G           D            C      D         
Her new man had said to meet him at eight

        G       D              C      D
And she came in dressed to the nines

       G          D            C           D 
But by ten it was clear he was more than late

        G             D            C
And she just wouldn't take it this time


    Em                     D
The bartender said she had had enough,

          G                          C
That he'd call a cab to take her somewhere,

    Em                    D 
She wasn't a stranger to loneliness,

      G                           C 
She'd grown up and spent her life there...


<Chorus>
         Em             D                 C               Em
Up until then, up until then, it happened over and over again

         G              D              C     D
Up until then, up until then, up until then


Practice had increased her tolerance
And she had hardly eaten all day
She was all hyped up on her new romance
But she drank in her usual way
She stepped out to breathe and to dry her eyes
And to check her machine just in case
He had called to excuse or apologise
When she saw his unpenitent face

He approached with a girl she had seen before
A bimbo up from Raspberry Street
He laughed when he saw her and so did the whore
They dropped a ten dollar bill at her feet

<Chorus>

She was small, he was tall, but she blocked his path
And she spoke in unprincipled words
The reason she seized him so full of wrath 
And more than half of the neighborhood heard
She sprayed him with Mace from her pocketbook
And she kicked in his personal zones
Her high heels would ruin his perfect looks
She left a couple of unbroken bones

The bimbo she ran in to get the cops
But the owner had called from the bar
It took two cars with dogs just to make her stop
I'm told that's how some women are...

<Chorus> 

They dropped a dime on the girl in the parking lot
But she would suffer in no permanent way
She spent thirty nights on a county cot
And she's regarded with fear to this day...

<Chorus>

    Em                          D      
Now she's tending bar where the Pagans used to meet,

         C                                   G
And he's living with that bimbo on Raspberry Street...