The Mute chords by Radical Face
Intro 1
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Csus4
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Csus4
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G
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Well, as a child
Verse 1
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I mostly spoke inside my head
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I had conversations with the clouds,
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the dogs, the dead
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And they thought my broken,
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that my tongue was coated lead
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But I just couldn't make my words
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make sense to them
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If you only listen with your ears
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Csus4
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I can't get in
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Verse 2
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And I spent my evenings pullin'
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stars out of the sky
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And I'd arrange them on
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the lawn where I would lie
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And in the wind I'd taste
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the dreams of distant lives
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And I would dress myself up in
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them through the night
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While my folks would sleep in separate beds and wonder why
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Interlude 1
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Dm
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And through them
Verse 3
days I was
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a ghost atop my chair
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My dad considered me a
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cross he had to bear
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And in my head I'd sing apo
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logies and stare
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As my mom would hang
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the clothes across the line
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And she would try to keep the empty
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from her eyes
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Verse 4
So, then one afternoon
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I dressed myself alone
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I packed my pillowcase
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with everything I owned
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And in my head I said goodbye,
then I was gone
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And I set out on the heels of the unknown
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So my folks could have
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a new life of their own
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So that maybe I could find
someone
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Who could hear the only words that I'd known
Outro 1
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