CAN'T RUN BUT Words & music by Paul Simon 1989


 
    I can't run but

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I can walk much faster than this

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Can't run but

  
 I can't run but

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I can walk much faster than this

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Can't run but


Am    Am7 |Am     Am7  |
       A cooling system

Am    Am7        |Am      Am7 |
   Burns     out in the Ukraine

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    Trees and umbrellas

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 Protect us from the new rain

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 Armies of engineers

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 To analyze the soil

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    The food we contemplate

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 The water that we boil


       
 I can't run but

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I can walk much faster than this

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 Can't run but

       
 I can't run but

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I can walk much faster than this

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 Can't run but

Am  Am7 |Am  Am7  |Am  Am7 |Am  Am7  |
   Oo    --    we                     Oo  --  we

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Am  Am7   |Am         Am7 |
       I had a   dream about us

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In the bottles and the bones of the night

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I felt a pain in my shoulder blade

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Was like a  pencil point? A love bite?

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 A couple was rubbing against us

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Rubbing and doing that new dance

Am      Am7           |Am      Am7  
       The man was wearing a jacket and jeans

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    The woman was laughing in ad--vance


       
 I can't run but

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I can walk much faster than this

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 Can't run but

       
 I can't run but

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I can walk much faster than this

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 Can't run but


Am    Am7 |Am    Am7 
       A winding river

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Gets wound    around a   heart.     Pull it

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    Tighter and tighter

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Until the  muddy waters part

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 Down by the river bank

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 A blues band arrives

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The music suffers, baby

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 The music business thrives,  oh


       
 I can't run but

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I can walk much faster than this

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 Can't run but

       
 I can't run but

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I can walk much faster than this

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 Can't run but

Am  Am7 |Am  Am7  |Am  Am7 |Am  Am7  |
   Oo    --    we                     Oo  --  we


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