Hot Knives chords by Bright Eyes

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Verse 1
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C 
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C 
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 (G major)  (C major)  (G major)  (C major) The  (G major) wife forgave the mistress
C 
G 
 (C major) For she  (G major) only entertained
C 
G 
 (C major) The  (G major) pain was gone the instant
C 
G 
 (C major) She  (G major) cleared her throat to speak her name
Em 
Said,  (E minor) Both of us must suffer
C 
From this  (C major) same unending ache?
G 
C 
 (G major)  (C major) 

Verse 2
G 
 (G major) 
The world was not of interest
Though her days were never dull
Her bed beneath a crucifix
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G 
 (C major) On  (G major) guests performing miracles
Em 
With the  (E minor) Son of God just hanging like
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C 
G 
a  (C major) common crimin (G major) al  (C major)  (G major) 
Am 
"When I  (A minor) do  wrong,
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I am  (C major) with God," she  (G major) thought
Am 
"When I  (A minor) feel lost,
C 
I  (C major) am not at all"
G 
 (G major) 

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Verse 3

So give me black light

(Give, give me)

So give me hot knives

(Deep clean sleep)

On a dance floor no one tell

s time

(There is no time)

Verse 4
Am 
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Oh, I've  (A minor) made love, yeah, I've  (C major) been fucked,
G 
so what?  (G major) 
Am 
I'm a car (A minor) toon,
C 
you're a full  (C major) moon, let's stay up
G 
 (G major) 

Verse 5
She went to see a mystic
Who made medicine from rain
And gave up her existence
To feel everything,
dream other's dreams
Em 
Bid farewell  (E minor) to her family
C 
G 
 (C major) With one ecstatic  (G major) wave
(Please take care, I love you all)
Am 
Out the win (A minor) dow as the
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G 
 (C major) car rolled away  (G major) 
Am 
She just  (A minor) van ished into a thick
C 
 (C major) mist of change
G 
 (G major) 

Verse 6
Bm 
So let us re (B minor) joice
(Let's rejoice!)
C 
In all this  (C major) pink noise
(Our pink noise!)
Am 
An oscil (A minor) lation that we can pin
D 
 (D major) point