A Scale, a Mirror, and Those Indifferent Clocks chords by Bright Eyes
Verse 1
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Here is a scale, weigh it out
And you will find, easily
Em
More than sufficient doubt
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Em
That these colors you see
Verse 2
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Were picked in advance
By some careful hand
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With an ab solute concept of beauty
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They are smeared and these blurs
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Verse 3
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Come in random order
Em
And color the eyes of your former lovers
Am
Hers were green like July
Except when she cried
Verse 4
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They were red
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Now I know a disease
That these doctors can't treat
Em
You contract on the day
Verse 5
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You accept all you see
Am
Is a mirror and a mirror is all it can be
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A reflection of something we're missing
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And language just happened
Verse 6
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It was never planned
Em
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And it's inadequate to describe where I am
Am
In the room of my house
Verse 7
Am
Where the light has never been
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Waiting for this day to end
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And these clocks keep unwinding
Verse 8
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And completely ignore
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Am
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Everything that we hate or adore
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Once the page of a calendar
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is turned it's no more
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Am
G
So tell me, then, what was it for?
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G
Oh, tell me, what was it for?
Outro 1
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