Esther chords by
The Hold Steady
The Hold Steady

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Key: C major
Intro 1
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Verse 1
C
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In the middle
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of a mission I met Esther in the kitchen
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Drinking something blue
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it looked like Windex
C
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She could shake but couldn't
really sing
Sharpened like a feral thing
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Helped me with my part
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when I lost interest
Verse 2
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She said her name was Esther I said
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baby that sounds biblical
C
C

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Ain't she the one that
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G

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came up after Vashti?
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Yeah and then some other stuff
At some point there I fell in love
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Then she heard a song she
Am
Am

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liked and lost me
Verse 3
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The party ended suddenly,
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suddenly it's over
F
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That left me an Esther
all alone and getting older
C
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All alone and getting older
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smoking in the street
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Now everything is Esther and it's been that
Interlude 1
way all week
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G

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Verse 4
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The times that we were powerless
were times that I remember best
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When it first came on it felt
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just like a blanket
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Once we had a little bit we pretty
much just wasted it
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G

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Traded in our tickets for drink
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s and little trinkets
Verse 5
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Em
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The scene back in the city was
F
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the opposite of freedom
C
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We were always so damn broke
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it was this whole dependent fallacy
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They started shooting so
the songs of the future
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G

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C
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Esther always wants
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it how it used to be
Verse 6
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Songs all ran together and
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the kids ran outta liquor
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That's when me and Esther started
staring at each other
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Started staring at each other
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feeling pretty sweet
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Now everything is Esther it's been
that way all week
Verse 7
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The parties fall to pieces the
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endings are so heavy
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Feels like no one's watching when
we're this deep in the valley
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When we're this deep in the valley
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you can see so many stars
F
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When Esther told her story
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Am
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we were sitting in the car
Verse 8
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She said her folks were never close
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They had me 'cause they had to
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G
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No one named me Esther
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That came up a little later
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It was after some detective
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Came around here with some questions
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I went out to Colorado
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Was mostly in the motels
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Started living pretty reckless
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Started calling myself Esther
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I just felt like someone different
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Interlude 2
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Verse 9
C
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Felt like someone different
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and I never could forgive
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All the movies in our heads about
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the lives we wanna live
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C
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The lives we wanna live are
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all free of pain and fear
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Now Es ther's getting cigarettes
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and me I'm buying beer
Verse 10
C
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Felt like someone different
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felt like someone else
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She al most died in Denver,
she did it to herself
C
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She did it herself,
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there's only her to blame
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Of course I call her Esther I don't
know her other name
Verse 11
C
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She's never going home her folk
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s were never close
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We mostly watch the TV crack the
windows when we smoke
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Her aura is amazing her
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room is kind of bleak
F
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I met Esther at a party got
Outro 1
together for a week
C
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Am
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