Birth Of Serpents Chords by The Mountain Goats

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[C] _ _ _ _ [F] Let the [Am] camera _
[Bb] _ pull back till the fullness of the frame is clear and [F] plain.
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[F] _ [C] Peer _ [F] into [C] the screen [Bb] until you see it all, _ [C] like a vision in a crystal [F] ball.
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_ [G] _ Let it all fill [C] with smoke.
Is [F] this somebody's idea of a [Bb] joke? _ _
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_ [F] _ _ _ Let the fixer [C]
work [Bb] until the silver's washed away [C] and take the picture from the [F] tray.
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_ [F] _ [C] Look [F] hard at what you [C] see [Bb] and then [C] remember you [F] and me.
[C] And [F] let the truth spring [C] free, _ [G] _ like a jack [C]-in-the-box, _
_ [F] _ like a hundred [Bb] thousand cuckoo clocks.
_ _ From the [C] Oregon corners _
_ [F] _ to the Iowa [Bb] corner, _ _ _ to the rooms with [C] the heat _ lamps where [F] the snakes get born. _ _ _ _
_ _ Crawl through the [C] tunnel [Bb] and follow, _ [C] follow the light [F] northwest.
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_ [F] See _ that [C] young man [Bb] who dwells inside [C] his body like an [F] uninvited guest.
[C] _ _ [F] _ _ [C] _
_ [A] _ _ See the [Dm] tunnel twist. _
_ [G] _ Clutch your birthright [C] in your fist. _
_ [F] _ Let _ the [C] camera _ [Bb] _ do [C] its dirty work down there in the [F] dark.
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_ [F] _ [C] Sing [F] low, [C] rise high, [Bb] bring back some blurry pictures [C] to remember all your darker [F] moments by.
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_ [G] _ Permanent bruises [C] on our knees. _
[F] Never forget what it felt like to [Bb] live in rooms like these.
_ _ From the [C] California _ _ [F] coastline to the [Bb] Iowa corner, _ _ _ to the rooms [C] with the heat lamps [F] where the snakes get born. _ _ _ _
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