R.E.M. - Blue Chords

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  Yellow circus left the stakes a broken ropes world's useless mug
                C
The ties that bind, ha ha 
I can be bad poet
Street poet
sh*t poet
Em
Kind poet too

Subway
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Almost 4AM
Halloween night
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Had enough to drink to make my own party
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All my fellow writers in half costume, half asleep
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Half silly, gone to seed
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I don't mark my time with dates, holidays, faded wisdom, locked karma holders
Em
Convenient
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I am made by my times
                    C
I am a creation of now
Shaken with the cracks and crevices
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I'm not giving up easy
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I will not fold
I don't have much
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But what I have is gold



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I saw your face...



Em
I sing in platinum
I dress in brass
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I eat in zinc
        C
Let it pass
Em
Compare a toast
I like that
I understand courage
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I still roll with the shout of a character I was married to today
           C
I try to see outside myself
I understand the eyes
Excuse all the highs
Em
Sorry
I am sorry
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Ha ha



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I like you, love you, every coast of you.
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I've seen your eddies and tides and hurricanes and cyclones.
Em 
Low ebb tide and high, full moon.
Up close and distant.
I read you.
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Like, the sky, the sea, the ocean, the sun, the moon.
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Blue, blue, blue, blue, blue, blue, blue blue, blue, blue, blue, blue.
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Naked and blue.
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Breathing with you. Touch. Change. Shift. Allow air. Window open. Drift. Drift away. Into now.
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I want Whitman proud. Patti Lee proud. My brothers proud. My sisters proud. I want me. 
           C
I want it all. I want sensational. Irresistible.
            Em
This is my time and I am thrilled to be alive.
D           C
Living. Blessed. I understand.

Em
Twentieth century:
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Collapse Into Now



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Cinde-rella boy
Em      D         C
You've lost your shoe

Em     D     C
Cinde-rella boy
Em     D     C
Your coach awaits

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A sun makes shadows
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All over your face
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As you sit

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Naked and blue
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Into me