Elegy chords by Extra Life

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Verse 1
Em 
Bm 
D 
Em 
D 
Em 
Am 
Em 
You
D 
Em 
You were my girl, nineteen
C 
G 
Em 
But the paper called you a woman
D 
C 
Cruel then silent hands
G 
C 
flung you through the screen
Em 
C 
We  both grew up,
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D 
Em 
Am 
Em 
grew up out of a dream, out of a dream
G 
C 
D 
I  wanted you when you knew, dad,
Em 
that's what I said, that's what I said,
Am 
Bb 
C 
Em 
little parts of a child who'd never bled.
Bm 
D 
Em 
D 
Em 
E 
Am 
Em 
D 
Em 
Nervous and sweet and mean
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Em 
G 
Big eyes and you couldn't
Em 
stop talking
D 
Secrets you didn't want
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G 
C 
to take with you
Em 
C 
G 
D 
Em 
That life would open up an d swallow you,
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Em 
somehow  you knew
G 
I wanted you and you knew,
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D 
boy you did,
Em 
that's what I said, that's what I said
Am 
Then a cartoon piano
Bb 
C 
Em 
fell on your head
G 
Held you the way that I
C 
D 
knew how to hold
Em 
Childish and cold, childish and cold
Am 
Bb 
Like the feel of a car
C 
Em 
when you lose control
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G 
D 
Em 
I think of you every time I drive drunk
E 
Bm 
G 
I think of you every time I
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Bb 
C 
F 
Dm 
F 
drive drunk
Dm 
Em 
I have been drunk