The Calendar Hung Itself... chords by Bright Eyes

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Intro 1

Does he kiss your

Verse 1
eyelids in the morning
when you start to raise your head?
B 
And does he sing to you incessantly from the
space between your bed and wall?
Em 
Does he walk around all day at school
with his feet inside your shoes?
B 
Looking down every few steps to
pretend he walks with you
Em 
Oh, does he know that place below your neck
that is your favorite to be touched?
B 
And does he cry through broken sentences
like I love you far too much?
Am 
D 
Does he lay awake listen
Em 
G 
C 
ing to your breath?
Am 
D 
Worried that you smoke
G 
C 
too many cigarettes
D 
Em 
Is he coughing now on
a bathroom floor?
D 
Em 
For every speck of tile there's
a thousand more
D 
That you won't ever see but most hold
Bm 
C 
D 
Em 
inside yourself eternally.
B 
Em 

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Verse 2

Well, I drug your ghost across

the country and we plotted out my death

In every city, memories would whisper,

"Here is where you rest"

I was determined in Chicago but

I dug my teeth into my knees

And I settled for a telephone and

Verse 3
sang into your machine
Em 
B 
You are my sunshine, my only sunshine
Em 
You are my sunshine,
Am 
Em 
B 
G 
my only sunshine
B 
Am 

Verse 4
Dm 
G 
C 
Am 
D 
G 
C 
D 
And
Am 
Em 
I kissed a girl with a
C 
broken jaw that her father gave to her
Em 
B 
She had eyes bright enough to burn me,
they reminded me of yours
C 
Em 
And in a story told she was a little girl
in a red-rouge sun-bruised field
field
field
B 
And there were rows of ripe tomatoes
where a secret was concealed
Em 
And it rose like thunder,
B 
clapped under our hands
Em 
And it stretched for centuries to a diary
B 
entry's end where I wrote

Verse 5
Em 
"You make me happy" (whoa) oh,
B 
when the skies are gray
Em 
"You make me happy" (whoa) The
B 
skies are gray and gray and gray
Am 
Well the clock's  heart

Verse 6
D 
it hangs inside
G 
C 
its open chest with its hands
Am 
Stretched towards the cal
D 
G 
C 
endar hanging it self
D 
Em 
But I will not weep for those dying days
D 
For all the ones who have left
Em 
there are a few that stayed
D 
C 
And they found me here and pulled me from the grass
D 
Em 
where I  was laid