• Song:

    Triple Spiral

  • Artist:

    Bright Eyes

  • Album:

    The People's Key

E5              A5          C#5           B5
I loved a Triple Spiral, my maiden-mother-crone
  E5          Ab5             C#5     B5 
I folded my devotion into an origami rose
     C#5             B5           E5            A5
Stood at her Tiffany window, she said to look below
        E5                A5
Could I see the town was burning?
        E5              A5
Could I see the broken prison?
       F#5              B5              E5
Could I see that it was time for me to go?

     E5            A5            C#5                  B5
They looted the museum and took all that they could hold
  E5            Ab5                 C#5              B5
A motorcade of flatbed trucks made off with quite a haul
C#5                 B5
That?s when I heard someone shout,
             E5                 A5
?In with the new! Out with the old!?
  E5            A5
A dusty box of letters
  E5               A5
A rusting suit of armor
 F#5             B5              E5
A casket made of fourteen karat gold

C#5           Ab5
    That?s the problem
C#5             B5
    No sense of time
       E5           E5   Ab5 C#5         A5         B5  E5   
She is shaped just like an hourglass there laying on her side


   E5                A5     C#5             B5
I loved you Triple Spiral?father, son and ghost
        E5             Ab5                 C#5
But you left me in my darkest hour when I needed you,
       B5
when I needed you
   C#5               B5       E5             A5
Now that the dream is over I want it to be known
       E5            A5
That I never saw it coming
           E5            A5
Through my little human prism
    F#5          B5              E5
How sad it is to know I?m in control

C#5          Ab5
   That?s the problem
C#5         B5
   An empty sky
  E5      E5    Ab5  C#5           A5       B5       E5                          
I fill it up with everything that is missing from my life
C#5              Ab5
   Where did you come from?
C#5          B5
   You fated sign
E5        E5       Ab5   C#5   A5       B5       E5
Spinning through the centuries expanding all the time

A5                                  E5
 Three worlds at once that blend together
A5                               B5
 Three times I cried for us but I felt better then

  E5                A5         C#5            B5
I loved you Triple Spiral, my maiden-mother-crone
    E5                Ab5              C#5              B5
You found me in this fallow state, my mind was off and stowed
  C#5                   B5          E5                 A5
I heard your strange commotion and wished I could go home
   E5             A5
To live a little longer

  E5           A5 
A full Indian summer
F#5            B5              E5
Long enough to carve you into stone

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