Living Proof Bruce Springsteen
Received: from post-office.nevada.edu (post-office.nevada.edu [131.216.1.11]) by redrock.nevada.edu (8.6.4/8.6.4) with ESMTP id TAA17757 for ; Wed, 12 Jan 1994 19:57:01 -0800<br/> Received: from csd4.csd.uwm.edu (csd4.csd.uwm.edu [129.89.7.4]) by post-office.nevada.edu (8.6.4/8.6.4) with SMTP id TAA26557 for ; Wed, 12 Jan 1994 19:56:56 -0800<br/> Received: by csd4.csd.uwm.edu; id AA07940; Wed, 12 Jan 94 21:56:54 -0600<br/> Date: Wed, 12 Jan 94 21:56:54 -0600<br/> Message-Id: <br/> To: jamesb@nevada.edu<br/> Subject: CRD: Living Proof (Springsteen)<br/> <br/> <br/> Please replace any copy of Springsteens Living Proof with this new <br/> improved one:<br/> <br/> Bruce Springsteen<br/> <br/> Living Proof (from the album "Lucky Town")<br/> -----------<br/> <br/> INTRO: D<br/> <br/> Well now on a summer night in a dusky room<br/> D G<br/> <br/> Come a little piece of the Lord's undying light<br/> D<br/> <br/> Crying like he swallowed the fiery moon<br/> A G <br/> <br/> In his mother's arms it was all the beauty I could take<br/> D G<br/> <br/> Like the missing words to some prayer that I could never make<br/> D A<br/> <br/> In a world so hard and dirty so fouled and confused<br/> G D<br/> <br/> Searching for a little bit of God's mercy<br/> G A<br/> <br/> I found living proof<br/> G D G D<br/> <br/> I put my heart and soul I put 'em hight upon a shelf<br/> Right next to the faith the faith that I'd lost in myself<br/> I went down into the desert city<br/> Just tryin' so hard to shed my skin<br/> I crawled deep into some kind of darkness<br/> Lookin' to burn out every trace of who I'd been<br/> You do some sad sad things baby<br/> When it's your you 're tryin' to lose<br/> You do some sad and hurtfull things<br/> I've seen living proof<br/> <br/> <br/> You shot through my anger and rage<br/> A<br/> <br/> To show me my prison was just an open cage<br/> Em <br/> <br/> There were no keys no guards<br/> A<br/> <br/> Just one frightened man and some old shadows for bars<br/> G A D G D<br/> <br/> Well now all that's sure on the boulevard<br/> Is that life is just a house of cards<br/> As fragile as each and every breath<br/> Of this boy sleepin' in our bed<br/> Tonight let's lie beneath the eaves<br/> Just a close band of happy thieves<br/> And when that train comes we'll get on board<br/> And steal what we can from the treasures treasures of the Lord<br/> It's been along long drought baby<br/> Tonight the rain's pourin' down on our roof<br/> Looking for a little bit of God's mercy<br/> I found living proof Oh, living proof I found living proof Yeah living proof<br/> G D G D<br/> <br/> (Repeat until fade)<br/> <br/> CHORD FORMATIONS: (Also, try the bar chords for these, <br/> D x 0 0 2 3 2 D barre 5th fret,<br/> G 3 2 0 0 3 3 G barre 3rd fret, and<br/> A 0 0 2 2 2 0 A barre 5th fret.)<br/> </div> </div> <div class="breadcrumbs">
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