Pale Green Things chords by The Mountain Goats

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Intro 1

got up before dawn

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went down to the racetrack.
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riding with the windows down
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shortly after your first heart attack.
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you parked behind the paddock,
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cracking asphalt underfoot,
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coming up through the cracks
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Verse 2

things

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we watched the horses run their
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workouts.
you held your stopwatch
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in your left hand
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and a racing form beneath your arm,
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casting your gaze way out to no
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man's land.
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sometimes I'll meet you out there
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lonely and frightened.
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flicking my tongue out at the wet leaves

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pale green things

Interlude 1

my sister called at three a.m.

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just last december.
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she told me how you'd died at last,
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at last
and that morning at the race track was one
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thing I remembered.
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I turned it over in my mind
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like a living chinese finger trap.
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seaweed and indiana sawgrass