A Song to Pass the Time chords by Bright Eyes

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Intro 1

Verse 1
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There is a middle-aged woman
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woman dragging her feet
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She carries baskets of clothes
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to a laundromat
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While the Mexican children
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kick rocks into the street
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And they laugh in a language
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I don't understand
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But I love them
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Why do I love them?
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Verse 2
So the neighborhood is dimming,
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I smoke on the porch
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Watch the people as they pass
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enclosed inside their cars
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And on their faces,
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just anger or disappointment
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I start wishing there was something
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I could of fer them
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A con      solation,
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what could I offer them?
When they are sad in their suburbs,
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robots water the lawn

Verse 3
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And everything they touch
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gets dusted spotless
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So they start to believe that they've not
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touched anything    at all
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While the cars in the
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driveway only multiply
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They are lost in their houses

Verse 4
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I have heard them sing in the shower
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making speeches to    their
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sister on the telephone
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Saying, "You come home
Woman, you come here
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Don't stay so far away from me"
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This weather

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has me wanting
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love more tangible
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Something I can hold
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because it's getting cold
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I say hold up our fists to
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the flame in the sky
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To block out the light that is reach
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ing for our eyes
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Because it would blind

Verse 6
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us
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It will blind us
I have locked my actions in the
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grooves of routine
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So I may never    be free
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of this apathy
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But I wait

Verse 7
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for a letter that is coming to me
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She sends me pictures of the
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ocean in an envelope
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So there still is hope
Yes, I can be healed
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There is someone looking
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for what I concealed
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In my secret drawer,
in my pockets deep
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You will find the reason s that
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I can't  sleep
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And you will still want me
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But will you still want me?
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will you still want me?
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Verse 8
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Well, I say come for the week
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You can sleep in my bed
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And pass through my life like
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a dream through my head
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It will, it will be easy
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I will make it easy
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Verse 9
But all I have for the moment
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is a song to pass the time
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A melody to keep me from worrying
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Oh, some simple

Verse 10
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progression to keep
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my fingers busy
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And words     that are sure to
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come back  to me
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And they will be laughing
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and they will be laughing
My mediocrity
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