The Shins - A Comet Appears
(((Capo on 2nd fret)))
INTRO
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VERSE
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One hand on this wily comet
Take a drink just to give me some weight
Some uberman I'd make, I'm
barely a vapor
They shone a chlorine light on
a host of individual sins
Let's carve my aging face off
fetch us a knife
start with my eyes
down so the lines form a
grimacing smile
Close your eyes to corral a virtue
Is this fooling anyone else?
Never worked so long and hard to
cement a failure
We can blow on our thumbs and posture
but the lonely is such delicate things
The wind from a wasp could blow them
into the sea, with
stones on their feet
lost to the light and the loving we need
CHORUS
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Still to come
the worst part and you know it
there is a numbness
in you heart and it's growing
VERSE
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With burnt sage and a forest of bygones
I click my heels get the devils in line
A list of things I could lay the blame on might
give me a way out
But with each turn it's this front and center
Like a dart stuck square in your eye
Every post you can hitch your faith on is a
pie in the sky
chock full of lies
a tool we devise to make
sinking stones fly
CHORUS
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Still to come
the worst part and you know it
there is a numbness
in you heart and it's growing
OUTRO (slow down on the last three chords)
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