new york city chords by Adrianne Lenker

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Intro 1

Verse 1
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New York City gripped me,
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like a big old machine
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I went into one side
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and landed in a dream
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It stirred me up and made
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me shout
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And sometimes I forgot about
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The way the wind blows in and out
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The cot tonwood trees
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And

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Verse 2

oh, it's easy to lose your mind

I might've lost mine

If I hadn't found you

Verse 3
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The avenues, the boulevards
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Businesses and school yards
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Shopping malls and mo  torcars
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All in one scene
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The

Verse 4
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lowest lows, and the highest highs
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The meanest noise and
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the lullabies
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The poison and the compromise
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The unspoken scream
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And

Verse 5

oh, it's so hard to find your place

And I never found mine

If I hadn't seen your face

Verse 6
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And  you can be my Buster Keaton,
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I'll be Blossom Dearie
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We can see the world so
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clearly
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You'll colour the grey away
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I will sing you songs all day
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The decay will just turn to blue moons
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As we look at the good old- fashioned
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moon
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Verse 7
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Well, New York City split
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me like a log in a mill
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Half of me happy, the other half ill
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But I feel myself a- warm
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ing to the old neon chill
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I still feel a longing,
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but its chased by a thrill

Verse 8

And oh, its so hard to find your place

I'd never found mine

If I hadn't seen your face

And

Verse 9
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you can be my Buster Keaton,
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I'll be Blossom Dearie
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We can see the world so
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Gm 
clearly
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F 
You'll colour the grey away
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F 
And I will sing you songs all day
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F 
The decay will just turn to blue moons
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Gm 
We  look at the good old- fashioned
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moon