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"Outskirts" by Blue Rodeo 
Written by Greg Keelor/ Jim Cuddy 
From the album "Outskirts" 
WEA Canada 1986 
Transcribed by Kevin Ross (kjross@yahoo.com) 
www.geocities.com/kjross/guitar

Intro: C 

C            F            C 
Here on the outskirts of life 
      F             C 
Dreams seldom come true 
F                       G      C     C/B     Am 
Flipping through photographs emotional holographs 
C                   F                      C 
Cutouts of all the figures you might have been 
    C             Dm        Am       F 
Reflections of a life that you once lived 

As the evening descends 
You're conscious of every breath 
Every moment is a crisis I guess 
Staring out the window of your hotel room 
You lit one too many fires underneath that spoon 
Well I guess you deserve the chosen few 
Real life just out of view 

                     G            F 
Yea but that's just here on the outskirts 
             G           F                 C 
Yeah that's here on the outskirts of your life 

GUITAR SOLO: Using chords from 2nd half of VERSE 

There's a picture we've all seen 
It was taken in the lobby of the L.A. Ambassador Hotel 
It's the silhouette of a man in another's arms 
So turn off your TVs and let that train go home 
Cause everyone warned you that California 
Wasn't going to be the end 
No California wasn't gonna be the end 

So tell me where can you hide when 
The whole world is ugly and strange 
Yes where can you turn when 
This whole world knows your name 
And these four walls are screaming 
And all your friends were so deceiving 
You forgot the lines to a part you rehearsed so well 
Lying awake in the Brazilian Court Hotel 

But that's just here on the outskirts 
Yeah that's here on the outskirts of your life 

OUT ON C 


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