Beck – Orphans (Ukulele)

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This is the first song on "Modern Guilt".
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(Verse 1):  I think I'm stranded but I don't know where

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I got this diamond that don't know how to shine

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In the sun where these dark winds wail

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and these children leave their rulers behind

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As we cross ten leagues from a Rubicon

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with matchsticks for my bones

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If we can learn how to freeze ourselves alive

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We can learn to leave these burdens to burn

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(Break):  Cast out these creatures of woe

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Who shatter themselves

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Fighting a fire with your bare hands
(Verse 2, same chords as Verse 1): Now my journey takes me further south I wanna hear what the blind men sing With their fossils and their gypsy bones I'll stand beside myself so I'm not alone And how can I make new again What rusts every time it rains And the rain it comes, and floods our lungs We're just orphans in a title wave's wake
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(End):  If I wake up and see my maker comin'

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With all of his crimson and his iron desire

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We'll drag the streets with the baggage of longing

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To be loved or destroyed, from a void

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to a grain of sand in your hand.