State Hospital Chords by Frightened Rabbit

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[C] _ _ _ _ _ The _
[Fm] _ half-back [C] flip, _ [G] conception, [C] state _ hospital birth _
[D] The most [C] threadbare, [D] tall story [G] the country's [C] ever _ _ _ heard
Brought home to [D] breathe smoke [Cm] in the arms of her mother
The blunt kitchen [Fm] knife who just lays [Em] in a submissive [D] position
[C] Beneath a national weight in the slow arc of [F] a fist
Her [Em] heart beats like [C] a breeze while [F] throwing down the [E] steps
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[F] _ _ Her [E] body's sticking [C] in concrete [F] forced to be where she [Em] wants
[G] Born into [F] a grave
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[C] _ _ _ _ [Em] _ _ [G] _ _
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Hand in the limb, [Em] three years of board schooling
She's accustomed to hearing that she could never run [F] far
A [D] slipped disc [Em] in the spine of [G] community [C] A bloody [G] curse worth nipped at a _ [F] stringbrush
Spits in [E] graveyards and fingers in car park
She cries in the high street just to be [F] heard
A screaming anchor, [Em] for nothing in [G] particular
[C] At the foot of the fucker vent, dragging her heels in [F] the dirt
Her [Em] heart beats like [C] a breeze while [F] throwing down the _ [Em] _ [C] steps _
[F] _ _ Her [Em] blood is sticking in [C] concrete [F] forced to be where she wants
Born into [C] a grave
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The cheek of youth flashed red and turned grey
Now she lies on the pavement, she's helped do her fee _
[F] _ All thighs [E] here in magpie [D] handbags [C] _ Saturday's [D] uniform for the [E] fuck me _ [F] parade
Brought [E] home to [D] keep warm [C] in the arms of a plumber
[Am] Brother in _ [F] balding, who just needs a [E] spine to [D] dig into
A [C] chest for the head and [E] a hand for the holding
[F] _ _ Her [Em] heart beats like a [C] breeze while [F] throwing down the _ [Em] _ [C] steps _
[F] _ _ Her blood [Em] is sticking in [C] concrete [F] forced to be where she wants
She [E] wants
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[E] _ _ [Am] _ _ [F] _ _ _ _
[E] _ _ _ _ [D] _ [A] Her _
[F] _ _ heart [Em] beats like a [C] breeze while [F] throwing down the _ [Em] steps
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[F] _ _ Her skin [Em] is sticking in [C] concrete [F] forced to be where she wants
She wants
The [B] broken elevator [C] of the [F] crowd between _ [Em] _ floors _
[F] _ _ Her blood [B] is sticking in [C] concrete
[F] All is not lost
All is [C] not lost
_ _ [F] All is not _ lost
All [D] is not [C] _ _ _ _ [F] lost _ _
[C] _ _ _ _ [F] All [D] is not [C] lost _ _ _ _ _ _
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