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Dozens of children playing manhunt all day to avoid doing chores
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Neighborhood summers we would spend at the shore
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Childhood crushes, so dramatic, yet pure, always swaying the score
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Would get me in trouble more and more
Chorus
F#m
I'd give it all up
E
I'd give it all up
D
I'd give it all up
F#m
I'd give it all up
E
I'd give it all up
D
I'd give it all up
To watch you win the war
Instrumental
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Verse
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Saturday nights we would dress up, sneak out, and go out on the town
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A couple of misfits without a sorrow to drown
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You'd tell me stories, such adventures, with a spirit no one dared to shoot down
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Imagination without bounds
Chorus
F#m
I'd give it all up
E
I'd give it all up
D
I'd give it all up
F#m
I'd give it all up
E
I'd give it all up
D
I'd give it all up
A
To have you around
Bridge
E
College took us away
D
Careers, marriage, some kids, a dog
E A
A picket fence, and houses fifty miles apart
E
I thought that I'd be okay
D
With where I am today
F#m E
But rules exist for everything but matters of the heart
Chorus
F#m
I'd give it all up
E
I'd give it all up
D
I'd give it all up
F#m
I'd give it all up
E
I'd give it all up
D
I'd give it all up
To hold you again
Bridge
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To hold you close to me
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Again
Outro
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