In The Shadow Of The Western Hills chords by The Mountain Goats

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Intro 1

Verse 1
Am 
Spread out
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D 
the old maps on the floor
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D 
Em 
Am 
Plot the course of the infection
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Dm 
Trace from its   beginnings to the present
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Em 
Is there no one here who's
making this connection
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Em 
Am 
Feral cats out by the trash cans
Em 
To the true believer
everything's a sign
Scrape the pigments from the
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Em 
baseboards
Am 
In the shadow of the western hills
Em 
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Em 
And paint my vision on my body
In the shadow of the western hills
Am 

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Verse 2
Bleak rose- petaled sky in
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two dimensions
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Am 
Black treeline a blade that
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Am 
cuts across it  all
Em 
Can't seem to sleep or
Am 
find my appetite
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Em 
Since I got
Am 
back from the hospital
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Em 
Am 
Call up Rebecca, maybe try to  explain
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Dm 
But she hangs up while I'm still talking,
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Em 
I walk out into the rain
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D 
Wonder from the alley to the darkness
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Sink down completely,
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leave no  trace
Trapped beneath the surface of
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Dm 
D 
the ice again
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Am 
Lie still with the moonlight on my  face
Em 
Wait for the wolves to keep
Am 
their promise
Em 
Listen for their footfalls in the cold
I can't hear things clearly to be honest
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Em 
Am 
In the shadow of the western hills
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He gets most healed that waits
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Em 
the longest
Am 
In the shadow of the western hills