Cocoon chords by The Decemberists

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Intro 1

Verse 1
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This cocoon,
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caught in Vesuvius' shadow
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Only the ashes remain
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And I waited there for you
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Why couldn't you?
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Here we lie waiting for
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something to startle
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To shake us from gravity's pull
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And so the sleeping hours are through
What can we do?
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Verse 2
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The tainted election, the low dirty war,
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it happened before you came to
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But this is solution, and this is amends
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The joke always tends to come true
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But there on your windowsill over
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the unmoving platoon
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Written in paperback,
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the key to the quarterback's room
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Under waning moon

Verse 3

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This quiet serves only to hide you

Provide you

What I knew: it'd come back

Interlude 1

to you

Verse 4
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Take this palm,
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follow the lines here are written
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And script out the rest of
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your life
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And feel your fingers falling slack
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and all folding back
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Verse 5
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The sorry conclusion, the hole in the sky
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Command what is tried, what is true
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But without solution, with feet on the ground
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It won't make a sound
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'til you're through
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So loosen your shoulder blades
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'Tis is your hour to make due
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Because there on the timberline
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Deep cold November shines through
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Soft and  absolute