Ideas Are Like Stars 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

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Verse 3

from the sky,

they run round your head

They litter your sleep as

they beckon

They'd teach you to fly

without wires or thread

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

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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