• Song:

    The Calendar Hung Itself

  • Artist:

    Bright Eyes

  • Album:

    Fever And Mirrors

I'm not gonna spend too much time trying to justify this tab.
Of course, Conor does NOT play this song with a capo.
My hands just like to cramp up.

Standard tuning
Capo 2

             EmDoes (022000@1)he kiss your eyelids in the morning when you start to raise your head? 
                    BmAnd (x24432@1)does he sing to you incessantly from the space between your bed and wall? 
              EmDoes (022000@1)he walk around all day at school with his feet inside your shoes? 
              BmLooking (x24432@1)down every few steps to pretend he walks with you. 
             EmDoes (022000@1)he know that place below your neck that is your favorite to be touched 
                    Bmand (x24432@1)does he cry through broken sentences like I love you far too much? 
Am (x02210@1)      D (xx0232@1)            G (320003@1)                      CDoes (x32010@1)he lay awake listening to your breath? 
Am (x02210@1)             D (xx0232@1)             G (320003@1)            CWorried (x32010@1)that you smoke too many cigarettes. 
        D (xx0232@1)                          EmIs (022000@1)he coughing now on a bathroom floor?
               D (xx0232@1)                             EmFor (022000@1)every speck of tile there's a thousand more 
                D (xx0232@1)                        G (320003@1)      D (xx0232@1)      Cyou (x32010@1)won't ever see but most hold inside yourself 
Deternally (xx0232@1)
Em Bm
Em Bm

          EmWell, (022000@1)I drug your ghost across the country and we plotted out my death. 
             BmIn (x24432@1)every city, memories would whisper: "Here is where you rest."
         EmI (022000@1)was determined in Chicago but I dug my teeth into my knees 
         Bmand (x24432@1)I settled for a telephone and sang into your machine. 
                  Em (022000@1)                        BmYou (x24432@1)are my sunshine, my only sunshine 
                  Em (022000@1)                        BmYou (x24432@1)are my sunshine, my only sunshine 

Am D G C
Am D G C
D Em
D Em
D G D C
D (xx0232@1)  EmI (022000@1)kissed a girl with a broken jaw that her father gave to her. 
                     BmShe (x24432@1)had eyes bright enough to burn me. They reminded me of yours. 
       EmIn (022000@1)a story told she was a little girl in a red-rouge, sun-bruised field 
                        Bmand (x24432@1)there were rows of ripe tomatoes where a secret was concealed. 
          Em (022000@1)                                                    BmAnd (x24432@1)it rose like thunder, clapped under our hands. 
          Em (022000@1)                                                         BmAnd (x24432@1)it stretched for centuries to a diary entry's end 
where I wrote, 
Em (022000@1)                                                        BmYou (x24432@1)make me happy oh!! when skies are gray 
Em (022000@1)                                                        BmYou (x24432@1)make me happy oh!! when skies are gray and gray and gray.
             Am (x02210@1)                D (xx0232@1)                G (320003@1)          CWell (x32010@1)the clock's heart it hangs inside its open chest 
                       Am (x02210@1)                           D (xx0232@1)          G (320003@1)            C (x32010@1)    
with its hands stretched towards the calendar hanging itself 
        D (xx0232@1)                                Embut (022000@1)I will not weep for those dying days. 
                D (xx0232@1)                                           EmFor (022000@1)all the ones who have left there are a few that stayed. 
               D (xx0232@1)                          G (320003@1)            D (xx0232@1)          CAnd (x32010@1)they found me here and pulled me from the grass 
D (xx0232@1)               Emwhere (022000@1)I was laid.

BmEm (x24432@1)Bm
Em Bm
Em Bm

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