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Can't Get Away

Transcribed by Glenn Coggin

This song is really simple to play, (which makes it fun to play along with). Just get the rhythm going between the Em & A and keep it going throughout the song. The words fit around the chord rhythm. This is in the same key as the “Alive” version.

         
Em                            A
Born in the troubled city
     Em                        A
In Rock and Roll, USA
          Em                             A
In the shadow of the tallest building
   Em                               A
I vowed I would break away
Em                                A
Listened to the Sunday actors
       Em                          A
But all they would ever say
                             Em
That you can't get away from it
A                          Em      A
No you can't get away
                           Em                     
No you can't get away from it
A                        Em                     (same chords for the rest of the song)
No you can't get away

Schooled on the city sidewalks
Coldness at every turn
Knew I had to find the exits
I never, ever would return
Scoffed at the prophet's omens
That said I would live to learn
That you can't get away from it

no you can't get away
no you can't get away from it
no you can't get away

Going unaided (up 80?) toward the west coast
Stopped in the sleepy town
Left my change and walked out
I didn't even turn around
What they were getting next to
Was that old familiar sound
That you can't get away from it

no you can't get away
no you can't get away from it
no you can't get away

In a hotel room in Amsterdam
On a wild and windy August night
As a cloud passed over a cold moon
My heart was seized with terror and fright
Seeping up through the floorboards
Coming in through the walls
Coming in through the doorway
Ringing up and down the halls
That you can't get away from it

no you can't get away
no you can't get away from it
no you can't get away
no you can't get away
no you can't get away
no you can't get away...