Chords for Talk to Her

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[Gm] _ _ _ _ It all [C] comes and goes and waits.
_ Everything looks the same.
[Gm] The cornfields, the cows, the flies, [C] _ _ _ the musky air [Gm] that fills our rows and permeates even
through the ash-infested vents [Ab] from the fires, _ [Am] eating away at the barks of trees like this
moment, eating away at the last dose of [C] happiness lingering on the dust of our bones.
_ The other night, wrapped in crispy motel sheets, [Gm] they clenched my body and pretended I was
an [C] embryo in my mother's womb.
It was the only source of [Gm] warmth and comfort that could sing me to sleep. _
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[Ab] But now, I see the [Am] sheep out the window on green pastures.
I hope they have water. _
[Eb] I sometimes imagine myself being reincarnated [Em] as one and jumping over these low wire fences to [Fm] freedom.
_ I wonder how far I could make it without a [Bb] human catching me, taming me, bringing [Fm] me
back to their living painting of [Bb] life to look at as they wash the dishes _ [Em]
smeared with my
mother's milk that they [C] stole from me. _
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[D] It's raining, finally, and [C] the van is slowly drifting into the [Db] other lane.
Eddie is [Dm] driving.
_ Everyone else is asleep, _
[Ab] sometimes coming up [Am] for air, their head poking up like groundhogs
before sinking back into their holes. _
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_ But it's not all dark and grim.
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There are moments of hope.
_ They come [Em] to me when it's quiet.
They come to me when everyone [Fm] is synced in their levels of happy, which doesn't happen [Bb] often.
And when it does, it's nice.
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I wonder if we'll look back and think [Em] that these miles of cornfields, these [Fm] anguished
breaths, these forced smiles, _
[Bb] these moments when we're gone, the momentary calms, [Fm] the
thousands of little bugs pressed against our [Bb] windshields, _ _ were all worth [C] it. _ _ _ _
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