Verse Refrain Chorus
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C x320xx G 3200xx C x3201x
Em 0220xx F 1332xx F 13321x
F 1332xx Am x0221x
G 32000x
Capo 5th fret
[Intro]
C C/E C/F
e|------------------------|------------------------|------------------------|------------------------|
B|------------------------|------------------------|------------------------|------------------------|
G|-0--0--0--0--0--0--0--0-|-0--0--0--0--0--0--0--0-|-0--0--0--0--0--0--0--0-|-0--0--0--0--0--0--0--0-|
D|-0--2--2--0--0--2--2--0-|-0--2--2--0--0--2--2--0-|-0--2--2--0--0--2--2--0-|-0--2--2--0--0--2--2--0-| x3
A|-3--3--3--3--3--3--3--3-|-3--3--3--3--3--3--3--3-|-3--3--3--3--3--3--3--3-|-3--3--3--3--3--3--3--3-|
E|------------------------|-0--0--0--0--0--0--0--0-|-1--1--1--1--1--1--1--1-|-1--1--1--1--1--1--1--1-|
[Verse 1]
C Em F
Headlights race towards the corner of the dining room
C Em F
Half illuminate a face before they disappear
C Em F
You breathe in forty years of failing to describe a feeling
C Em F G
I breathe out smoke against the window, trace the letters in your name
[Refrain 1]
G F
Our letters sound the same, full of all our changing
G F C C/E C/F C C/E C/F
That isn't change at all, all straight lines circle sometime
[Verse 2]
C Em F
You said somewhere there's a box full of replacement parts to
C Em F
All the tenderness we've broken or let rust away
C Em F
Somewhere sympathy is more than just a way of leaving
C Em F G
Somewhere someone says I'm sorry, someone's making plans to stay
[Refrain 2]
G F
So tell me it's okay, tell me anything or
G F
Show me there's a pull unassailable
[Chorus 1]
C F
That will lead you there from the dark alone to benevolence that you've never known
Am G F
Or you knew when you were four and can't remember
C F
Where a small knife tears out those sloppy seams and the silence knows what your silence means
Am G F C C/E C/F C C/E C/F
And your metaphors as mixed as you can make them, are linked like days together
[Interlude]
C Em F
C Em F
e|----------------------------------------------|
B|----5---5---5---5---3---1---0---0-0h1p0-------|
G|--0---0---0---0---0---0---0---0---------0-h2--|
D|----------------------------------------------| x2
A|----------------------------------------------|
E|----------------------------------------------|
[Refrain 3]
G F
I still hear trains at night, when the wind is right I
G F N.C.
Remember everything, lick and thread this string
[Chorus 2]
C F
That will never mend you or tailor more than a memory of a kitchen floor
Am G F
Or the fire door that we kept propping open
C F
And I love this place, the enormous sky and the faces, hands that I'm haunted by
Am G F C C/E C/F C C/E C/F
So why can't I forgive these buildings, these frameworks labeled home
[Outro]
C Em F
Headlights race towards the corner of the dining room
C Em F
Half illuminate a face before they disappear