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Eight Hundred Dollar Shoes

The Union

Intro:  	Eb     G     Cm     Cm/Bb   Ab

Verse 1:    Bb       Eb  (Fm7/Eb) Eb         Bb           (Cm7) Bb
		You had your grand      illusion and wrestled with your fate.
        	Ab6                            G7                    G7   Am-5
		The winter of your discontent came twenty years too late.
        Bm-5      Cm             Cm7/Bb         F7/A            Ab6
		If it was love and I was there, I've forgotten where it lives.
           Eb                 Bb            Ab                    Bb
		We both stepped off a frozen rock onto a burning bridge.


Verse 2:    Eb                   Eb+9  Bb          (Cm7) Bb
		You came like an invasion, all bells and wistles blowin'.
        Ab6                        G7               G7  F6/A  G7/B
		Reaping the rewards of the fable you'd been sowing.
          Cm                Cm7/Bb         F7/A           Ab6
		I saw you cross the landing and descending marble stairs.
             Eb                 Bb           Ab                    Cm/G 
		Like Caesar crossed the Rubicon, you seemed to walk on air.


Chorus: Eb                  G            Cm              Cm7/Bb
		Yea, I've seen your movie, and I read it in your book.
            Ab                        Eb          G7                 G7   F6/A   G7/B
		The truth just flew off every page.  Your songs have all the hooks.
               Cm7           Cm7/Bb              F7/A             Ab6
		You're seven wonders rolled in one.  You shifted gears to cruise.
               Eb           G7     Ab              Eb       (Bb)  Eb          
		Oh you came to town in headlines and eight hundred dollar shoes.

(Repeat Intro)

Verse 3: Bb    Eb     (Fm7/Eb) Eb          Bb         (Cm7) Bb
		Oh the bellboys  are   crying, and money's changing hands.
        	 Ab6                            G7               G7  F6/A  G7/B
		Your cloak and dagger legacy's gone home to no man's land.
            Cm                 Cm7/Bb            F7/A            Ab6
		The marquee lights are flickering.  Your poster's fading fast.
             Eb              Bb              Ab                    Bb
		Your being here just melts away like ice cubes in a glass.

(Repeat Chorus)

(Repeat last line of chorus)

Outro:  	Eb     G     Cm     Cm/Bb   Ab   Bb   Eb   (Bb)  Eb