The National Lights - River Bed

Capo II

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There’s a hole in the river

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Where they put your body down

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It flooded there for weeks

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and wet the cursed ground

I see you waving, I see your ghost around
You look like you’re happy
I’m the one who looks drowned

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It’s not a big thing

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But babe this ain’t a big town

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It’s no big thing

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But this ain’t a big town

I’ll hold in my bones
That sweet, little heart of yours
It’s not big enough to beat for two anymore
I’ll grow for us both
Since you won’t be growing old
I love you like I told you.

It’s not a big thing
But babe this ain’t a big town
It’s no big thing
But this ain’t a big town

Great Lake Swimmers - Your Rocky Spine

Capo III

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I was lost in the lakes

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and the shapes that your body makes

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that your body makes that your body makes

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that your body makes

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and the mountains said I can find you here
they whispered the snow and the leaves in my ear
I traced my finger along your trails
your body was the map I was lost in it

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floating over your rocky spine

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the gray shears made you and now your mine (2x)

I was moving across your frozen veneer
the sky was dark you were clear
could you feel my footsteps
would you shatter would you shatter would you

and your soft fingers between my claws
like purity against resolve
I could tell then there we were falling from a plane
and came from the rocks for the earth to display

they told me to be careful up there
were the wind blows a venomous rage through your hair
they told me to be careful up there
were the wind rages through your hair

Richmond Fontaine - Westward Ho

Intro:

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The Sandman and Riverhouse, The Horseshoe and the Ho-hum

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Just romantic visions of 4 walls, TV, sink and tub

The 777 & Ox-bow and down the street is the Westward Ho
As a kid all I wanted was to disappear inside
Disappear inside to

The Rancho and Sutro, The Time Zone and don't forget
The Everybody's Inn or The Monte Carlo

Motel life ain't much a life and motel ain't much of a home
But I found out years ago, that a house ain't either

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Jason Isbell - Dress Blues

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What can you see from your window?

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I can't see anything from mine.

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Flags on the side of the highway

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and scripture on grocery store signs.

Maybe eighteen was too early.
Maybe thirty or forty is too.
Did you get your chance to make peace with the man
before he sent down his angels for you?

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Mamas and grandmamas love you

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'cause that's all they know how to do.

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You never planned on the bombs in the sand

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or sleeping in your dress blues.

Your wife said this all would be funny
when you came back home in a week.
You'd turn twenty-two and we'd celebrate you
in a bar or a tent by the creek.
Your baby would just about be here.
Your very last tour would be up
but you won't be back. They're all dressing in black
drinking sweet tea in styrofoam cups.

Mamas and grandmamas love you.
American boys hate to lose.
You never planned on the bombs in the sand
or sleeping in your dress blues.

Now the high school gymnasium's ready,
full of flowers and old legionnaires.
Nobody showed up to protest,
just sniffle and stare.
But there's red, white, and blue in the rafters
and there's silent old men from the corps.
What did they say when they shipped you away
to fight somebody's Hollywood war?

Nobody here could forget you.
You showed us what we had to lose.
You never planned on the bombs in the sand
or sleeping in your dress blues.

No, no you never planned on the bombs in the sand
or sleeping in your dress blues.

Lucero - Old Sad Songs

Intro: C#m E C#m A E B A E

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Well, I'd stay with you tonight my love

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stay the whole night long.

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But these boys keep singing these old sad songs

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and I must sing along.


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And I hear the snair drum's slow sad march

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and I hear those fiddles cry

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And I must go with them my dear

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or else I'd stay the night.

Lucero - Into Your Eyes

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Well I'm not supposed to see you looking
G
I'm not supposed to stare straight into your eyes
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Into your eyes
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Well I'm not supposed to kiss your lips
G
But you smile so sweet
D
I can't resist those eyes

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Well you say you might have eyes for me
G
I can only wish that you were mine
D
That you were mine
A
Well I'm not supposed to be here with you
G
But how can I leave
D
If you look at me with those eyes
G
Into your eyes


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Well I'm not supposed to kiss your lips
G
But you smile so sweet
D
I can't resist those eyes

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And I'm not supposed to kiss your lips
G
But you smile so sweet
D
I can't resist those eyes

Great Lake Swimmers - Moving Pictures, Silent Films

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Patterson Hood - Miss Me Gone

Tune down one whole step

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We've been good for each other

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Held each other through so much

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Now you're sittin' there givin' me that little look

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Have to ask what that means


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Comes a time for countin' losses

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Time to take this left and go

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I'll be gatherin' my belongins

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I'll be walkin' out that door

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I'll be walkin' out that door


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Gonna miss me when I'm gone

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Gonna miss me when I'm gone

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I'll be sad, I won't be the only one

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Gonna miss me when I'm gone

No use blamin' one another
Neither one of us to blame
Just picked a crazy time to walk across each other's path
But I'm awful glad we came

Comes a time for countin' losses
Wish that time had not come
Two more things before I walk out that door
You're the best friend I've known
Gonna miss me when I'm gone

Gonna miss me when I'm gone
Gonna miss me when I'm gone
I'll be sad, I won't be the only one
Gonna miss me when I'm gone
Gonna miss me when I'm gone
Gonna miss me when I'm gone

Mountain Goats - Woke Up New

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On the morning when I woke up without you for the first time

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I felt free and I felt lonely and I felt scared

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And I began to talk to myself almost immediately

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Not being used to being the only person there

The first time I made coffee for just myself, I made too much of it
But I drank it all just cause you hate it when I let things go to waste
And I wandered through the house like a little boy lost in the fall
And an astronaut could've seen the hunger in my eyes from space


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And I sang

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Oh, What do I do? What do I do? What do I do?

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What do I do without you?

On the morning when I woke up without you for the first time
I was cold so I put on a sweater and I turned up the heat
And the walls began to close in and I felt so sad and freightened
I practically ran from the living room and into the street

And the wind began to blow and the trees began to pant
And the world in its cold way started coming alive
And I stood there like a buisness man waiting for the train
And I got ready for the future to arrive

And I sang
Oh, What do I do? What do I do? What do I do?
What do I do without you?

Sufjan Stevens - The Mistress Witch from McClure (or, the Mind that Knows Itself)

capo 4


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And the winter moves about Illinois

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when my sister picks a fight

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with the Alexander boy

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and my father locks the car by the store

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still we figure out the keys and follow him once more

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oh my God, we see it on the floor

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the woman on the bed

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the ankle brace she wore

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stones and sled,

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it could have been some other

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the mind that knows itself

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has a mind to serve the other

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but we run back, scratching at the door

if I’m hiding in the sleeves of my coat
when my father runs, undressed
he’s pointing at my throat
and my brother has fit in the snow
and the traffic stops for miles
we take him by the elbow
oh my God, the shuffling and the floor
a mind that knows itself
is a mind that knows much more
so we run back, scrambling for cover
the mind that knows itself
has a mind to kill the other
oh my God, you’ve left us now for dead
(oh my God. no one came to our side
to carry us away from danger)