Cartoon Blues chords by
Bright Eyes

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Key: E minor

Intro 1

Verse 1
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I listened to a lecture
of nonsense until dawn
Bm Bm 2
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By a plagiary poet with
dark glasses on
Am Am 
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He said, "How did you ever
dream up that song
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B B 2
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The one where the baby dies?"
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Verse 2
I said, "I'll tell you the secret,
which one's your good ear?
Bm Bm 2
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Yeah, people are made up of water and fear
Am Am 
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If there weren't women present
we wouldn't be here
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Bm Bm 2
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So       let's make like
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Em Em 
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we're friends"

Verse 3
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And the pot turned to powder
and soured the mood
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And the people I'd come with
were gone from the room
Am Am 
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So I asked like a child,
"May I be excused?"
Bm Bm 2
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B B 2
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And disobeyed them all
Em Em 
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Verse 4
Into that late-night latrine, latrine,
rain soaking through my shoes
Bm Bm 2
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I tried walking backwards
to get less confused
Am Am 
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Working off the theory I could never prove
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B B 2
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Em Em 
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That it was life itself to  blame

Verse 5
Am Am 
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Em Em 
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And time ruined the world
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Em Em 
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Like a failed revolution
Am Am 
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Em Em 
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A   tumor we could not remove
C C 
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An old friend, a constant,
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Em Em 
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the blues

Interlude 1

Verse 6
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Now my days are distractions,
sit wringing my hands
Solitaire, crosswords and films on demand
B B 2
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Am Am 
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When you turn from a cartoon
C C 
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back into a man
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B B 2
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Em Em 
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You start to smell that human smell

Verse 7
Em Em 
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So  I sleep with the fan on
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B B 2
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Em Em 
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to drown out the street
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And the noise rising up from
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Bm Bm 2
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the bar underneath
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Bm Bm 2
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Am Am 
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But for that inconvenience
all my drinks are free
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Em Em 
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So I guess it's just as well

Verse 8
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Why do I envy the ending
right from the start
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Just get it together to take it apart
Am Am 
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Watching the horse as it
follows the cart
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Em Em 
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B B 2
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Em Em 
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I sweep up  my  broken spell

Verse 9

And I felt something changing the world

Like a new constitution

A thief I would have to pursue

At all times, at all costs, the truth

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