Goose Eggs chords by
Joanna Newsom

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Key: B major

Intro 1

Verse 1

What we built,

at the kiln that won't be stilled

Did not set well

Verse 2

The old veil of desire

Like the vessels that we fired

Fell thin as eggshells

Verse 3
Gm Gm 3
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And every season, somebody burns
F F 
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Downtown, taking turns
Ab Ab 4
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Taking a bus,
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to take a train and just plain vamoose
Gm Gm 3
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Now the wind blows coals
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over the hills
Honey I've been paying my bills
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But honey it's been a long time
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since I've come to any use
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And it hurt me bad,
when I heard the news
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That you'd got that call,
and could not refuse

Verse 4
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A goose, alone, I suppose,
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can know the loneliness of geese
Who never find their peace
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Whether north, or south, or west,
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or east, west or  east
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And I could never find my way
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To being the kind of  friend you
F F 
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seemed to need in me
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Db Db 4
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Till the needing had ceased
G G 
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Re cently,

Verse 5
D D 
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a bottle of rye,
F F 
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and a friend, and me
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On our five loose legs
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D D 
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Had a ramble, and spoke
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Of the scrambling of broken hopes,
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and goose eggs
Gm Gm 3
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And a stranger, long ago
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Not you honey, you, I know
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Just spoke of broken hopes
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and old strangers
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Now the wind blows coals over
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the sea tell you what
Honey, you and me,
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Eb Eb 6
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better run and see if we can't contain them first

Verse 6
Gm Gm 3
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But you had somewhere that you
had to go
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And you caught that flight out of Covalo
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Now, overhead,
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you're gunning in those Vs
Where you had better find your peace
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Whether north, or south, or west,
F F 
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Dm Dm 
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or east, west, or  east
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And I had better find my way
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To being the kind of  friend
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you seemed to need in me
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At last, at  least
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What's

Verse 7
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redacted will repeat
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And you cannot learn that you
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burn when you touch the heat
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So we touch the heat
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Bb Bb 
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And we cut facsimiles of love
and death
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Just separate holes in sheets
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Where you cannot breathe,
and you cannot see
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And I cannot

Verse 8

now, for the life of me,

believe our talk

Our flock had cause to leave

But do we? Do we?

Outro 1
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G G 
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Eb Eb 6
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F F 
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C C 
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