====== The World in 1984 ======

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"When our [Am]column ad[Em]vanced, and we [F]saw what we've [C]done,
we were [Dm]sure that we could [F]never tell the [Am]folks back [D]home,"

said my father to me. I had just turned sixteen,
and we were walking from my school to his apartment alone.

>And he said,
>[F]"You'd think the [C]world you're in would [Em]always [Am]remain,
>but some [C]worlds can just [Am]disap[G]pear.

>Some worlds you enter just for seconds at a time,
>and some last until you're forgiven."

When my mother and me take the drive into town,
I can't tell if she's lost where we are.
She turns the radio to 92 Star,
where Ronnie Milsap sings what he would not have missed it for,

>and she says,
>"What do you think you're gonna do with your life?"
>And I say, "You've got to teach me to drive."
>She just laughs at that, and musses my hair,
>and says, "Kid, you're lucky to be alive."

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