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Date:  September 23, 1999

Album:  Smoke Rings In The Dark

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      SMOKE RINGS IN THE DARK    Gary Allan





    Bm            D                 Bm  

I wanna make you tell me what I've come to understand

          Em               G            Em             Bm 

You're a certain kind of woman I'm a different kind of man

      Bm                D              Bm   

I've tried to make you love me You've tried to find a spark

       Em                 G                    D         A       Bm    D   

Of a flame that burned somehow turned to the smoke rings in the dark

        Bm        D       Bm

The loneliness within me takes a heavy toll

          Em                 G                Em          Bm  

Cause it burns as slow as whiskey through an empty aching soul

          Bm              D     Bm 

And the night is like a dagger long and cold and sharp

      Em               G           Em                        Bm

As I sit here on the front steps blowing smoke rings in the dark

D   G     D              A          G                      D    A   

I-I-I I know I must be going cause love-ove-ove's already gone-one

Em               G               Bm          Em

All I'm taking with me are the pieces of my heart

Em                      Bm                 D

And all I'll leave are smoke rings in the dark

     Bm                   D           Bm 

The rain falls where it wants to The wind blows where it will

       Em                   G              Em                 Bm 

Every-thing on earth goes somewhere but I swear I'm standing still

Bm                 D               Bm

So I'm not gonna wake you I'll go easy on your heart

            Em                  G              Em                 Bm

I'll just touch your face and drift away like smoke rings in the dark

D   G     D              A           G                     D    A

I-I-I I know I must be going cause love-ove-ove's already gone-one

Em               G               Bm          Em

All I'm taking with me are the pieces of my heart

    Em                   Bm                D

And all I'll leave are smoke rings in the dark





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