If the Brakeman Turns My Way chords by Bright Eyes

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Verse 1
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When panic grips your body and your
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heart is a hummingbird
Raven thoughts blacken your mind
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until you're breathing in reverse
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All your friends and sedatives mean well,
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but make it worse
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Every reassurance just
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magnifies the doubt
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Better find yourself a place
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to level out
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Verse 2
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Got a cricket for a conscience,
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always looks the other way
A cocaine soul starts seeming like
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an empty cabaret
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Hey, where have all the dancers gone?
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Now the music doesn't play
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Tried to listen to the river but you
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couldn't shut your mouth
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Better take a little time to level out
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Verse 3

I never thought of running

My feet just led the way

Verse 4
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Mixed up signals
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Bullet train
Cars are switched out
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in the crazy rain
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I could meet you any place
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If the brakeman turns
my way
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Verse 5
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All this automatic writing
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I have tried to understand
From a psychedelic angel who was
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tugging on my hand
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It's an infinite coincidence
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but it doesn't form a plan
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So I'm headed for New England
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or the Paris of the South
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Going to find myself somewhere
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to level out
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Verse 6
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Are your brothels full, oh Babylon,
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with merry middlemen?
Never peer out of their periscopes from
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those deep opium dens
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All this death must need a counterweight,
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always someone born again
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First a mother bathes her child,
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then the other way around
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The scales always find a way
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to level out
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Verse 7

I tried to pass for nothing

But my dreams gave me away

Verse 8
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Mixed up signals
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Bullet train
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People snuffed out in the brutal rain
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I could live to any age
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If the brakeman turns my way

Verse 9
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It is an old world,
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it's hard to remember
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Like a dime store mystery
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I'm a repeat first
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time offender
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Who has rewritten history

Verse 10
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Mixed up tea leaves
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Phantom pain
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Fuzzy logic in the the crazy rain
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Getting better every day
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If the brakeman turns my way

Verse 11
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Mixed up signals
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Bullet train
Cars are switched out in
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the blinding rain
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He'll be smiling as he seals my fate
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When the brakeman turns my way