John My Beloved chords by Sufjan Stevens (Official Version)
Intro 1
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Verse 1
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Are we to speak, first day of the week
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Stumbling words at the bar
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Beauty blue eyes,
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my order of fries
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Long Island kindness and wine
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Beloved of John, I get it all wrong
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I read you for some kind of poem
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Covered in lines, the fossils I find
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Have they no life of their own?
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Chorus 1
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So can we pretend sweetly
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Before the mystery ends?
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I am a man with a heart that offends
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With its lonely and greedy demands
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There's only a shadow of me
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in a matter of speaking I'm dead
Verse 2
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Such a waste, your beautiful face
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Stumbling carpet arise
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Go follow your gem,
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your white feathered friend
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Icarus, point to the sun
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If history speaks of two baby teeth
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I'm painting the hills blue and red
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They said beware, Lord hear my prayer
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I've wasted my throes on your head
Chorus 2
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So can we be friends, sweetly
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Before the mystery ends?
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I love you more
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than the world can contain
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In its lonely and ramshackle head
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There's only a shadow of me
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in a matter of speaking I'm dead
Interlude 1
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Verse 3
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I'm holding my breath
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My tongue on your chest
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What can be said of my heart?
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If history speaks, the kiss on my cheek
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Where there remains but a mark
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Beloved my John, so I'll carry on
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Counting my cards down to one
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And when I am dead,
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come visit my bed
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My fossil is bright in the sun
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So can we contend, peacefully
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Before my history ends?
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Jesus I need you, be near me,
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come shield me
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From fossils that fall on my head
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There's only a shadow of me
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in a matter of speaking I'm dead
John My Beloved
Sufjan Stevens
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