Armchairs Chords by Andrew Bird

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_ [C] _ _ _ _ dreamed you were a _ carousel Of _
_ [G] _ _ _ a space between a chair
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[Bm] _ _ [C] _ _ _ And I was a _ _ cartographer _ Of [G] _ _ _ the tangles in your _ _ _ _ _ hair
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Silence on the silence _ _ _ is one _ That everybody _ knows
_ [G#] Oh, [Fm] everybody [G] _ [C] knows the sound _ _ That _ _ silence is _ _ _ _ _ _
This one's [G] heavy _ _ _ _
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[C] _ _ _ _ This one's a wavy _ parka floor [Am] _ _ _
[G] _ _ _ _ You're hanging from the _ stairs
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_ [C] _ _ These dark and [Em] empty rooms are [C] floors _ _ _
[G] _ _ _ Of _ _ incandescent hell _ _ _ _ _
[F] _ _ _ _ [C] _ [G] Awkward [F] path _ or [C] [G] fatal flung [F] _ time _ _ It's a crooked boat _ [C] or Tom's a crooked _ boat
_ _ A time you need to long to know _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Out just like a [G] friend _ _ _ _ _ _
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[D] _ _ Grab hold of your [B] _ bootstrap _ On a polar [Em] _ carol _ _ _ _
[E] To love until you feel so near [Am] and free _ _ _ I [Em] would let you [D] go
_ As _ if you [G] lacked the proper chemicals _ [C] To know _ _ [G] how _
[Am] The way I felt [A] the last time [B] You let _ yourself _ _ _
[F] _ fall _ _ this _ _ _ _ _ _ low _
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_ [Fm] _ _ _ silence is a crooked [C] _ _ _ _ _ _ boat _ _ _ _ _ Tom's a [F#] crooked _ _ boat _ _ _
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[F] _ _ 55 and [G] 3 8 years later _ _ [F] _ At the bottom of this [G] gigantic crater _
An [F] _ armchair calls to _ [G]
you _ [F] Yeah, this _ armchair [G] calls to you
And it says that [C] someday _ We'll _ _
[Em] _ _ _ _ get back at them all
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With a box and a [G] pair of pliers _ As [A] _ [Bm] _ [C] _ _ ancient sea slugs begin [Em] to crawl
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[C] _ _ the ragweed and [G] barbed wire _ _ _ _ _ _
And how _ [C] long did you get right?
You didn't [G] call _ _ _
_ [F] _ It didn't cross your [G] mind at _ all _ Into [C] the _ waves, the waves of [G] Aeon _ Squall
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couldn't feel it, say [G] it all You're 55 and 3 [F] 8 years _ _ _
55 [G] _ _ _ _ _ and 3 [F] 8 years
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_ tired
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