Don't Apply Compression Gently chords by
Courtney Barnett

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Key: D major•

Intro 1

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Verse 1

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Tell me what you're thinking,

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what you're thinking about

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Tell me when you're finished,

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maybe I'll come around

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Had enough to bring me all

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the way to the ground

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I don't have to tell you what I'm thinking

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about

Interlude 1

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Verse 2

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You have made your bed,

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I know better than to sleep in it

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Better off dead than the hell

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that will become of it

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You have hurt my head but

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I'm not denying that

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I did not bring it on myself

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Verse 3

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I take pieces of myself from

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everyone around me

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I'm not individual enough for you

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I replicate the people I admire

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But at least I'm not bitter and sad

Interlude 2

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I may not

Verse 4

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be a hundred percent

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happy but at least I'm not with

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I may not be a hundred percent happy but at least I'm

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not with you

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I may not be a hundred percent

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I may not be a hundred percent happy but at least

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I'm not with you

Outro 1

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Chords

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Am

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The original key of Don't Apply Compression Gently by Courtney Barnett is D major.

The primary chords used in Don't Apply Compression Gently are D, A, C, G, Am.

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