Lime Tree chords by Bright Eyes

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Verse 1
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I keep floating down the river
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but the ocean never comes
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Since the operation I heard you're breathing
just for one
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Now everything is imaginary,
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es pecially what you love
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You left another message,
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said it's done
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It's done

Verse 2
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When I hear beautiful music it's
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always from another time
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Old friends I never visit,
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I remember what they're like
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Standing on a doorstep full
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of nervous butterflies
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Waiting to be asked to come inside
Just come inside
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Verse 3
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But I keep going out
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I can't sleep next to a stranger
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when I'm coming down
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It's 8 a.m., my heart is beating too loud
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Too loud
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Don't be so amazing
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or I'll miss you too much
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I felt something that I had never
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touched
Everything gets smaller
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now the further that I go
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Towards the mouth and the reunion
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of the known and the unknown
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Consider yourself lucky if you
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think of it as home
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You can move mountains with your
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misery if you don't
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If you don't

Verse 4
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It comes to me in fragments,
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even those still split in two
Under the eaves of that old lime tree
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I stood examining the fruit
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Some were ripe and some were rotten,
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I felt naseous with the truth
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There will never be a time more
opportune
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Verse 5
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So I just won't be late
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The window closes,
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shocks roll over in a tidal wave
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And  all the color drains
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out of the frame
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So pleased with a daydream
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that now living is no good
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I took off my shoes and walked
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into the woods
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I felt lost and found with every step I took