Chords for Sparklehorse - Belly of a Mountain Part II

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_ _ _ _ [A] _ _ [Dbm] He was [Gbm] a [A] _ thief. _ _
_ _ I felt [Gbm] like a _
_ [A] _ _ child.
[Gbm] Singing with my silence [D] free.
There's been a lot [Gbm] of pressure that I've probably put upon myself [D] psychologically
about being perceived as [Bm] an entertainer.
Up there, you know, with [E] the guitar, on a stage, I'm elevated.
And the way we're touring now, I'm sitting on a stool,
[C] and it's more like, you know, I'm just [G] visiting with people,
playing my songs for people. _
[Dm] I'm a bad _ _ _ _
[C] teacher.
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[G] _ Singing with my [Cm] silence free.
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_ _ [C] _ _ _ [G] All the people that I've worked with or collaborated with,
I was fans of their _ music [A] before I ever met them.
I was a huge Portishead fan before I ever met Adrian.
And now we're great friends.
_ [C] And [Am] the same [G] with Tom White's records, [C] especially his later records,
starting with the Islander [G] ones with rainbows and swordfish and [Eb] fun machine, all that.
I just [G] love the sound of his records so [A] much.
_ It's still hard for me to comprehend [C] the fact that we were on [D] record together,
[G] that he sings lead vocals [D] on a Sparkle Horse [G] album.
And it's like It's a Wonderful Life.
I guess that record had a lot of [Em] high-profile people on it,
and I [E] never really planned on it being [Db] like this star-studded record.
It was really just people that I had met [F] along the way,
having put out three albums,
and just being a Cardigans fan and meeting Nina coming to my show.
Nina happened [E] to be in Brooklyn the same time I was recording [F] tracks for It's a Wonderful Life.
I guess I'm just lucky that being able just to know these people and collaborate with them
has been [Bb] a real gift. _ _ _ _ _ _
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I've lived in New York and Los Angeles, and when I returned to the South,
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I just decided that I wanted to live in the [Gb] country.
Where I've moved to [Abm] now is literally on top of a mountain,
in the Smoky Mountains in North Carolina. _
It's so high up that the clouds are sometimes [Eb] under me, and [Ebm] there's bears.
I've actually been trapped in a house by a bear one time.
I couldn't go to my studio because [Bbm] there was a bear in my truck.
And it's just a really beautiful [Abm] _ _ pastoral valley that I live in.
And this spot in North Carolina [Eb] was almost this valley that was untouched.
It [Ebm] almost had its own _ _ weather system.
_ It rains almost every [Bbm] day, but then it'll stop.
The sun will come out, and you can just sort of smell the soil.
[Abm] And there's lots of water.
There's creeks and rivers everywhere.
_ It's nice, but it can be dangerous too,
because sometimes I [Eb] get to where I don't come off the top [Ebm] of the mountain for too long.
I get to where I just don't want [Bb] to leave.
And that's one of the reasons it took five years between its wonderful [Abm] life and this record.
[Em] _ [B] This is from Good Morning Spider.
It's called Pain [B] Blitz. _ _ _ _ _ _
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But [Am] they know it's so hard
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