Classic Cars chords by Bright Eyes
Verse 1
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She was a real royal lady,
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true patron of the arts
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She said the best country singers
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die in the back of classic cars
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So if I ever got too hungry
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for a suitcase or guitar
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To think of them all alone in the dark
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So I laid some nights beside her
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in a bed made for a queen
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She said I kissed her different,
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that all the men her age were mean
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Gave me anything I wanted,
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oh, the generosity
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I took all that I could, it was free
Now the sky is a torn up denim and the
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clouds are just splattered paint
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It?s a room I?m renovating,
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it?s a name I got to change
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If I get out of California I?m going
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back to my home state
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To tell them all that I made
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a mistake
Verse 2
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And I keep looking for that
blindfold faith
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Lighting candles to a cynical saint
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Who wants the last laugh at the fly
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trapped in the windowsill tape
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You can go right out of your
mind trying to escape
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From the panicked paradox of day to day
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If you can?t understand something then it?s
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Interlude 1
best to be afraid
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Verse 3
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The whole world,
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it loves you if you are a chic chameleon
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Intersecting circles she could
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hang with anyone
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But when conducting business she would
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lie about where she?s from
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Saying, "Life is how it is, not how it was"
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I learned to listen,
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felt like I was back at school
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She?d talk forever about the
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phases of the moon
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Saying, "Everything is a cycle,
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you?ve got to let it come to you
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And when it does,
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you will know what to do"
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Without even knowing I
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guess I took her advice
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Painted her front door,
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it seemed a suitable goodbye
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It?s not that often but I
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think of her sometimes
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Just something quaint,
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a couple ships in the night
Verse 4
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And they keep moving at a glacial pace
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Turning circles in a memory maze
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I made a new cast of the death mask that
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is going to cov er my face
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I had to change the combination
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to the safe
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F#
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Hide it all behind a wall, let people wait
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And never trust a heart that is so bent
Outro 1
it can?t break
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