Brittle chords by James Yorkston

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Verse 1
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I am as brittle as the next man,
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all your loss
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I have surely felt
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and I may stand here, full of heart
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But I have no space for your heart
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And how I've loved you and your brother
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But I cannot place him amongst the other
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Dear departed, who has got me
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With the passing and the fear?
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For I'm as brittle as the next man
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No heart of stone
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No endless well of love,
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I have shut it all off
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It's all I have got,
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and I have to be where you're waiting
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Hand bath surrounds,
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smiling thumbs
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Still innocent of life
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Give them hope that their
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friends will not disappoint
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At their age, still innocent of life
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Do not let them out,
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their friends they may disappoint
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For if they are as brittle as this next man
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They will be scarped
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and their friends disappear
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If they are as brittle as this next man
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They will be scarpered
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when they fall upon this
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F#m 
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soil
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Please don't fall upon your soul
You