A Perfect Sonnet chords by Bright Eyes

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Intro 1

Verse 1
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Lately I've been wishing I had
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one desire
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Em 
Something that would make
me never want another
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Something that would make
it so that nothing matters
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All would be clear then

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Verse 2

But I guess I'll have to settle for

a for a few brief moments

And watch all dissolve into a single second

And try to write it down

into a perfect sonnet

Or one foolish line

Verse 3
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Because that's all that you'll get
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so you'll have to accept
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You are here and then you're gone
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But I  believe that lovers should
be tied together and
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Thrown into the ocean in
the worst of weather

Verse 4

And left there to drown

Left there to drown

In their innocence

But as for me I'm coming to the final chapter

Verse 5
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I read all of the pages and
there is still no answer
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Only all that was before I know
must soon come after
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That is the only way it can be
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So I stand in the sun

Verse 6
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And I breathe with my lungs
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Trying to spare myself the weight
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of the truth
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Saying everything you have ever
seen was just a mirror
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And you've spent your whole
life sweating in an endless fever

Verse 7
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And now you are laying ina
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bathtum full of freezing water
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Wishing    you were a ghost
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But once you knew a girl and
you named her lover
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And danced with her in kitchens
through the greenest summer

Verse 8
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But autumn came, she disappeared
You don't remember where
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she said she was going to
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But you know that she is gone
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because she left you a song
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That you don't want to sing

Verse 9
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We're singing I  believe that lovers
should be chained together
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Em 
And thrown into a fire with
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their songs and letters
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And left there to burn in their arrogance
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But as for me I'm coming
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to my final failure

Verse 10
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I've killed myself with changes
trying to make it better
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But I still ended up becoming something
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other than what I had planned to be
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Now I believe
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that lovers should be draped in flowers
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And laid entwined together
on a bed of clover