Turtles All The Way Down
By Sturgill Simpson
CD: Metamodern Sounds In Country Music (2014)
Tabbed By Larry Mofle
7/25/2014


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I've seen Jesus play with flames in a lake of fire that I was standing in
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Met the devil in Seattle and spent 9 months inside the lions den
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Met Buddha yet another time and he showed me a glowing light within
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But I swear that God is there every time I glare in the eyes of my best friend
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Says my son it's all been done and someday yer gonna wake up old and gray
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So go and try to have some fun showing warmth to everyone you meet and greet and cheat along the way

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There's a gateway in our mind that leads somewhere out there beyond this plane
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Where reptile aliens made of light cut you open and pull out all your pain
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Tell me how you make illegal something that we all make in our brain
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Some say you might go crazy but then again it might make you go sane

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Every time I take a look inside that old and fabled book
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I'm blinded and reminded of the pain caused by some old man in the sky
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Marijuana, LSD, psilocybin, DMT they all changed the way I see
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But love's the only thing that ever saved my life

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So don't waste your mind on nursery rhymes or fairy tales of blood and wine
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It's turtles all the way down the line
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So to each their own til' we go home to other realms our souls must roam
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To and through the myth that we all call space and time