Your Reply chords by
Frances Quinlan
Frances Quinlan

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Key: Eb major
Intro 1
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Verse 1
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Somebody wrote
"tender" in the novel's margins
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As if to remind about a precious force
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In the next paragraph the protagonist
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Sat down on the belly of a
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Dead horse
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Verse 2
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The author, I read, fell from a window
Many stories high
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Stretching out to feed pigeons
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Or a stray cat depending
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on the website
Verse 3
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Whether or not I have
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Or was given a little more time
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There just doesn't seem
to be much room
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For a reply
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And it's pos sible it only belongs
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Where it happened, fine
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According to John
Fear softens into doubt
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To what do I cling and sink is mine,
Interlude 1
no reply
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"Think the last
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time I came up
this way I was younger"
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Said your aunt, isn't it a good line?
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We found the garden abandoned
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And that night became dark over
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Chicken and wine
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Verse 5
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Documentarians tossing lemmings
Stunned over the edge
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War time juveniles shot in martyr
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For the crime of stealing eggs
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Dinner, by the way, was di vine
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I drank the last of the coffee
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Waiting for you to rise
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Verse 6
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Wheth er or not I have
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Or was given a little more time
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There just doesn't seem
to be much room
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For a reply
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And it's possible it only belongs
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Where it happened, fine
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According to John
Fear softens into doubt
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To what do I cling and think is
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Whether
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or not I have
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Or was given a little more time
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There just doesn't seem
to be much room
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For your reply
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And it's possible it only belongs
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Where it happened, fine
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According to John
Fear softens into doubt
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To what do I cling and think is mine,
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no reply
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Reply, no
Outro 1
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ChordsA D Bm E F#m