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Bright Eyes - The Calendar Hung Itself
[Verse 1]
Does he kiss your F#meyelids in the morning
when you start to raise your head?
And does he C#sing to you incessantly
from the place between your bed and wall?
Does he F#mwalk around all day at school
with his feet inside your shoes?
Looking C#down every few steps
to pretend he walks with you?
Oh does he F#mknow that place below your neck
that is your favorite to be touched?
And does he C#cry through broken sentences
like "I love you far too much"?
[Chorus]
BmDoes he lay Eawake listeAning to your Dbreath?
BmWorried that Eyou smoke too Amany cigaDrettes?
Is he Ecoughing now on a F#mbathroom floor?
For every Especk of tile there are a F#mthousand more
That you won't Eever see
But must C#mhold inEside yourDself eEternally
F#m C# F#m C#
[Verse 2]
Well I drug your F#mghost across the country
and we plotted out my death
In every C#city, memories would whisper
"Here is where you rest"
I was deF#mtermined in Chicago
But I dug my teeth into my knees
And I C#settled for a telephone
Sang into your machine
F#m"You are my sunshine,
My only C#sunshine.
F#mYou are my sunshine
My only C#sunshine"
[Solo]
Bm E A D
Bm E A D
Esus4 E
[Verse 3]
I F#mkissed a girl with a broken jaw
That her father gave to her
She had eyes C#bright enough to burn me
They reminded me of yours
And in a F#mstory told she was a little girl
In a red-rouge, sun-bruised field
And there were C#rows of ripe tomatoes
Where a secret was concealed
And it F#mgrows like thunder
Clapped under our C#hands
And it F#mstretched for centuries
To a diary entry's C#end where I wrote
F#m"You make me happy (WHAT?)
When the skies are C#gray
F#mYou make me happy (WHAT?)
When skies are C#gray and gray and gray"
[Chorus]
Well the Bmclock's heart it Ehangs inside Aits open Dchest
With hands Bmstretched towards the Ecalendar Ahanging iDtself
But I Ewill not weep for those F#mdying days
For all the Eones who've left there are a F#mfew that stayed
And they Efound me here and C#mpulled me Efrom the Dgrass
Where EI was laid
[Outro]
(F#mRepeat)C#  
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