Five_and_a_Half_Minutes.pdf

FIVE AND A HALF MINUTES MINUT ES  from "The "The Woman Woman Upstairs" 

lyrics by Kait Kerrigan and Brian Lowdermilk 

music by Brian Lowdermilk 

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Ev-'ry

five

and

a

ha half

min - utes

the un - i - verse

ex - pands

four

miles

7

And  ev - 'ry

time

I

Copyright 2005 by Kait Kerrigan and Brian Lowdermilk. Lowdermilk. All rights reserved.

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Five and a Half Minutes - 2 10

child en - ters the world

The world

has

six and a

half bil - lion peo - ple

this

year

And there are

on

this

13

eight

mil

-

lion

peo

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 ple

in

right

now,

this

ci

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ty,

is -

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land

But

right

here,

some

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how

you're

sit - ting

here.

Five and a Half Minutes - 3 22

I

try

to

ex - plain

this

world  

Watch- ing

at - oms

an - y - way

that

I

25

can

ca

-

reen

like

it's

just

28

some

scene

That

I'm

watch

up

and

the

num

-

ing

from

the

stands

'Cuz when the

31

facts

add

-

 bers

fit

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It's

the

mo - vie

of

our

lives

Five and a Half Minutes - 4 34

and

it's

per

-

fect

37

It

is - n't

real - ly

true

un - til

it's

there

in

front

of

you.

40

I

43

may

not

ev - er

catch

my

breath

no

mat - ter how

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I

try

Five and a Half Minutes - 5 46

Like

I

may

nev - e r un - der - stand

how

ev

-

'ry

sin - gle

day

We

your

chest

breathe

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twen - ty

three

thou

-

sand

times

Be - cause

watch - ing

rise

52

and

fall

The

num - bers

don't

add

up

at

All

we

are's

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a

hun - dred tril

-

lion

cells,

two hun

-

dred

and

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six

bones

Five

quarts

of

blood,

Five and a Half Minutes - 6  57

for - ty

five

mi - les

of

nerves

nerves

And

ty

nerves

And

a

hun - dred

thou - sand

hairs,

and

too

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man - y

or - gans

six -

thou - sand

miles

of

art -

er

-

ies

We

63

must - 've

been

made

by

a

man

'Cuz

a

wo - man would - 've

made

us

more

ec - o - nom -

66

i

-

cally

I

don't

know

what

that

means,

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all

I

know

Is

I

have

Five and a Half Minutes - 7  69

seen

this

scene

some

years

a - go

And

I

would

swear  

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I'm

watch - ing

from

the

stands

75

And

I

would

swear  

I

know

a

se - cond

be

-

fore

you

78

reach

for

her

Hands.

Feels like

it's

some old

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mo - vie

Though the

Five and a Half Minutes - 8  82

script's no

good,

and

the

g irl 's

no

beau

-

ty The f acts

add

up

and the num -

86

 bers

fit

It's the

mo - vie

of

my

life

and

it's

per

-

90

It

is - n't

94

in front

of

you.

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real - ly

true

un - til

he's

there

fect