A Machine Spiritual (In the People's Key) chords by Bright Eyes

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Verse 1
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The people's key
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Ringing through arena seats
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The black machine
Played it all from memory
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A fever dream
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Well, I'll come back eventually
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To wade into the water
Another and another

Verse 2
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We go
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Form some kind of code
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The bodies float
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And form some kind of code
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The bodies float
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Someone's out to know

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Verse 3

Papa hobo

Don't hide your eyes

Mother mountain

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Don't kill your unborn child

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His day is coming

Verse 4
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A question burns
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Beneath the centuries of dirt
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That voice you've heard
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Well, every head's a   different world
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Well, mine's concerned
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I boarded up the windows
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A catatonic plateau
A backwards black-faced
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minstrel minstrel show
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So just let me go
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The prisoner moans
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Oh, just let me go
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The prisoner moans
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No one has to know

Verse 5
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Eva Braun went to dye her hair
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Little Hitler sighs in his
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giant's chair
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And dreamed of nowhere
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And dreamed of nowhere
And dreamed
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Verse 6
The people's key
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Ringing filling everything
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The theme  repeats
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Thinner than the galaxy
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Impart to me
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Your wisdom and eventually
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I'll float into   the ether
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Another from another
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We grow

Verse 7
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Form some kind of code
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Of flesh and bone
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We form some kind of code
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Of flesh and bone
No, you're not alone
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Verse 8
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History bows and it steps aside
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In the jungle there's columns of
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purple light
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We're starting over
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We're starting over
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We're starting