The Calendar Hung Itself

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Bright Eyes - The Calendar Hung Itself
[Verse 1]
F#m
Does he kiss your eyelids in the morning
when you start to raise your head?
C#
And does he sing to you incessantly
from the place between your bed and wall?
F#m
Does he walk around all day at school
with his feet inside your shoes?
C#
Looking down every few steps
to pretend he walks with you?
F#m
Oh does he know that place below your neck
that is your favorite to be touched?
C#
And does he cry through broken sentences
like "I love you far too much"?
[Chorus]
Bm E A D
Does he lay awake listening to your breath?
Bm E A D
Worried that you smoke too many cigarettes?
E F#m
Is he coughing now on a bathroom floor?
E F#m
For every speck of tile there are a thousand more
E
That you won't ever see
C#m E D E
But must hold inside yourself eternally
F#m C# F#m C#
[Verse 2]
F#m
Well I drug your ghost across the country
and we plotted out my death
C#
In every city, memories would whisper
"Here is where you rest"
F#m
I was determined in Chicago
But I dug my teeth into my knees
C#
And I settled for a telephone
Sang into your machine
F#m
"You are my sunshine,
C#
My only sunshine.
F#m
You are my sunshine
C#
My only sunshine"
[Solo]
Bm E A D
Bm E A D
Esus4 E
[Verse 3]
F#m
I kissed a girl with a broken jaw
That her father gave to her
C#
She had eyes bright enough to burn me
They reminded me of yours
F#m
And in a story told she was a little girl
In a red-rouge, sun-bruised field
C#
And there were rows of ripe tomatoes
Where a secret was concealed
F#m
And it grows like thunder
C#
Clapped under our hands
F#m
And it stretched for centuries
C#
To a diary entry's end where I wrote
F#m
"You make me happy (WHAT?)
C#
When the skies are gray
F#m
You make me happy (WHAT?)
C#
When skies are gray and gray and gray"
[Chorus]
Bm E A D
Well the clock's heart it hangs inside its open chest
Bm E A D
With hands stretched towards the calendar hanging itself
E F#m
But I will not weep for those dying days
E F#m
For all the ones who've left there are a few that stayed
E C#m E D
And they found me here and pulled me from the grass
E
Where I was laid
[Outro]
F#m C#
(Repeat)

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Bright Eyes - The Calendar Hung Itself
[Verse 1]
when you start to raise your head?
from the place between your bed and wall?
with his feet inside your shoes?
to pretend he walks with you?
that is your favorite to be touched?
like "I love you far too much"?
[Chorus]
F#m C# F#m C#
[Verse 2]
and we plotted out my death
"Here is where you rest"
But I dug my teeth into my knees
Sang into your machine
[Solo]
Bm E A D
Bm E A D
Esus4   E
[Verse 3]
That her father gave to her
They reminded me of yours
In a red-rouge, sun-bruised field
Where a secret was concealed
[Chorus]
[Outro]

The Calendar Hung Itself Chords by Bright Eyes

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