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[Verse]
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Poison oak, some boyhood bravery
       A                                Dsus2
When the telephone was a tin can on a string 
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And I fell asleep with you still talking to me
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You said you weren't afraid to die

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In polaroids you were dressed in women's clothes
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Were you made ashamed, why'd you lock them in the drawer? 
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Well I don't think that I ever loved you more

[Chorus]
                A 
Than when you turned away
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When you slammed the door
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When you stole a car drove, towards Mexico 
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And you wrote bad checks just to fill your arm
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I was young enough, I still believed in war

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[Verse 2]
E                                    F#m
But let the poets cry themselves to sleep
E                                                 F#m
And all their tearful words would turn back into steam

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But me, I'm a single cell on a serpent's tongue
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And there's a muddy field where a garden was
                 A
And I'm glad you got away 
                Dsus2
But I'm still stuck out here
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My clothes are soaking wet from your brother's tears

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[Bridge]
E                                       F#m
And I never thought this life was possible
E                                               F#m 
You're the yellow bird that I've been waiting for
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The end of paralysis I was a statuette 
          F#m                  E
Now I'm drunk as hell on a piano bench
            A                     Dsus2
And when I press the keys it all gets reversed
              F#m                E
The sound of loneliness makes me happier

[Outro]
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