Josh Ritter - Nightmares Chords

[ C/G  Fmaj7  G ] x4


Verse 1 chords:
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I know where the nightmares sleep
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On what fodder do they feed
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For two long weeks I stayed awake 
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until I saw one cross your face I...

[ C/G  Fmaj7  G ] x2

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I knew that you had been untrue
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I didn't know how, but I knew the
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Who you spoke to in your dreams, was 
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Never how you spoke to me now

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I know where the nightmares sleep 
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On what fodder do they feed
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I followed them back down to hell 
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And I spent some time down there myself

[ C/G  Fmaj7  G ] x2

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Nightmares have their dreams as well
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And when they sleep they go to hell
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And they drink their fill on lakes of blood
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Canter 'cross the skull-paved mud
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And nurse their little colts on flies 
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Their coltish teeth like kitchen knives
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And look down from abysmal cliffs
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Their dead hair by the lead wind riffed
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On denizens too deep to see
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Whose own dreams nightmares' nightmares be

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I know where the nightmares sleep 
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On what fodder do they feed
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I'd been awake so long by then
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They thought that I was one of them


[ C/G  Fmaj7  G ] x4

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Nightmares cannot be ribcaged
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Midnight's just a steeple chase
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Down silver needles half will go 
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Pin your navel to your soul
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The other half will go instead 
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A'gallop 'cross the kicked up bed
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And find the one who's sleeping sound
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And drag him down, oh drag him down
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Drag him down, oh drag him down
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Drag him down, oh drag him down
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Drag him down, oh drag him down

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Drag him down where I got took
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And though he may not want to look
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I'll sift hell for an equal pain
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Shard-borne beetles boiling rain
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I/ll prop his eyes and down them feed
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The same hell he first fed to me now

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I know where the nightmare sleep
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On what fodder do they feed
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I followed one back down to hell
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And spent some time down there myself

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I know where the nightmares sleep
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I know where the nightmares sleep
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I know where the nightmares sleep
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I know where the nightmares sleep
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I know where the nightmares sleep
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I know where the nightmares sleep