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Ideas Are Like Stars easy guitar chords by 
Mary Chapin Carpenter
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Verse 1
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Today Joseph is
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sitting alone
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With occasional nods to the waitress
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She tops off his cup while she's
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snapping her gum
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Making her rounds on the lunch shift
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Counting out coins, he leaves them arranged
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In neat lines and circles and arcs
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She just stares at the tip
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that spells out her name
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And ideas are like stars
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Verse 2
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And yesterday pedaling
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down 4th Avenue
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Between the stalls and the
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bookshops
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The sepia tones of a lost
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afternoon
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Cradled a curio storefront
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And inside the air was thick with the past
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As the dust settled onto his heart
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And here for a moment is every
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place in the world
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And ideas are like stars
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They fall
Verse 3
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from the sky,
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they run round your head
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They litter your sleep as
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they beckon
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They'd teach you to fly
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without wires or thread
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They promise if only you'd let them
Verse 4
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For the language of longing
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never had words
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So how did you speak from your heart?
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Yet here is a box that swears
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it has heard
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That ideas are like stars
Interlude 1
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Tonight Joseph
Verse 5
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stood out in the yard
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As Debussy played from the kitchen
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Celestial companions till
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mornings first lark
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Shone overhead and he listened
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And who was that shadow
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there by the gate?
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Who was that there stand
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ing guard?
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It was only loneliness and
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loneliness waits
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And ideas are like stars
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Ideas are like stars
Outro 1
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