Desdemona chords by
Patty Griffin
The Alternate Routes

N/A

Simplified

Key: G major

Intro 1

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Verse 1
C C 
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Desdemona,
Csus2 Csus2 
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help yourself
C C 
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I  hear you mourning at the dawn
G G 
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Csus2 Csus2 
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G G 
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G G 
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C C 
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Desdemona, ask which side
Of all this lying are you on
Csus2 Csus2 
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G G 
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Verse 2
G G 
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C C 
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Did you build yourself a runway?
Did you tell yourself tomorrow?
Csus2 Csus2 
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G G 
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Csus2 Csus2 
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G G 
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Am Am 
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G G 
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Did you cry?
C C 
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And are you dressed in hesitation
When you tell yourself that
everything's alright?
Csus2 Csus2 
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G G 
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Am Am 
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C C 
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G G 
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Verse 3
Em Em 
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'Cause I see
D D 
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C C 
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a distance in your smile
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And what your Mondays have become
D D 
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G G 
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C C 
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Could be the rest of your life
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Em Em 
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Desdemona, you're not dead yet
C C 
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No it's not wrong
Em Em 
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Am Am 
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If you want everything in
D D 
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life under the sun
C C 
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Under the sun
Csus2 Csus2 
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G G 
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Under the sun
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Verse 4
G G 
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C C 
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Desdemona, you're in love
Do not forget about yourself
Csus2 Csus2 
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G G 
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Am Am 
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G G 
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C C 
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Desdemona,
bring the people
G G 
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That you love inside your hell
Csus2 Csus2 
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G G 
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Am Am 
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Verse 5
C C 
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'Cause you are younger in the
eyes of those who see you
Please forget about the time
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C C 
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G G 
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Am Am 
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C C 
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G G 
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C C 
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Throw yourself out on these
brave and empty branches
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In the winter waiting high
G G 
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C C 
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G G 
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Verse 6
D D 
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C C 
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Everybody's out there killing time
Em Em 
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D D 
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But I will be damned to let you
G G 
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C C 
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stand here killing mine
Am Am 
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Don't you know we're gonna change
G G 
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Bm Bm 2
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C C 
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G G 
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a whole world the day
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Bm Bm 2
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We stop waiting on the world to change

Interlude 1

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Verse 7
C C 
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Desdemona, we are not so very different
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G G 
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C C 
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G G 
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Do you see?
C C 
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At the moment braver still
Than what our minds let
Csus2 Csus2 
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us       believe
G G 
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G G 
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Verse 8
C C 
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Even the walls the will surround you
Somehow steady by your
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C C 
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G G 
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very own hands
C C 
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I don't know just how to change you
All I know is how to tell you that

Interlude 2

you can

Csus2

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Verse 9
Em Em 
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D D 
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C C 
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'Cause I'll never tell you how to live
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D D 
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But you keep on telling me
G G 
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C C 
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That's just the way it is
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Desdemona,
G G 
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C C 
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more than anything I know
Am Am 
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Never tell yourself that's
G G 
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D D 
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just the way it goes
C C 
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G G 
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I know it goes
C C 
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But what do I know?