• Song:

    The Center Of The World

  • Artist:

    Bright Eyes

  • Album:

    2002-05-15: Somerville ...

Intro  

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G Bm Am At the center of the world there's a statue of a girl C D G She is standing near a well with a bucket bare and dry Bm Am I went and looked her in the eyes and she turned me into sand C D G This clumsy form that I despise, it scattered easy in her hand Bm Am It came to rest upon a beach with a million others there C D G We sat and waited for the sea to stretch out so that we could disappear Bm Am Into the endlessness of blue into the horror of the truth C D Em See, we are far less than we knew, yeah, we are far less than we knew Em C But we knew what we could taste Em Girls found honey to drench our hands B The men cut marble to mark our graves B Said we'll need something to
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G remind us of B All the sweetness that has passed through us Em The priests dressed children for a choir B But found no joy in what was sung B C D D G The funeral had begun G Bm Am In the middle of the day when you drive home to your place C D G From that job that makes you sleep back to the thoughts that keep you awake Bm Am Long after night has come to claim any light that still remains C D In the corner of the frame (lower notes again for this part) G that you put around her face Bm Two pills just weren't enough Am The alarm clock's going off but you're not waking up C D This isnt happening happening happening happening happening G It is
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