Idylls of the King chords by The Mountain Goats

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Intro 1

Verse 1
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This place
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with its old plantations
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These roads leading out
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to the sea
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This day full of  promise and potential
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More clay pigeons for      you and me
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All of them all of them
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All of them all of them
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All of them all of them all of them all of them
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All lined up

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Interlude 1

Verse 2
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Huge crows loitering by the curb
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Our shared paths unraveling
behind us like ribbons
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And I dreamed of vultures
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In the trees around our house
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And cicadas and locusts
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And the shrieking      of
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innumerable gibbons
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All of them all of them
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All of them all of them
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All of them all of them all of them all of them
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All lined up
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Verse 3
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How long will we ride this
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way about?
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How long 'til someone caves
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under the pressure?
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My dreams are haunted by
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armies armies of ghosts
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Faces too blurry to make out
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Numbers far too high to measure
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Your face like a vision straight
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out of Holly Hobby
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Late light drizzling through your hair
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Your eyes   twin volcanoes
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Bad ideas dancing around   in there
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All all of them all of them
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All of them all of them
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All of them all of them all of
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them all of       them
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All lined up