Belle and Sebastian – Nobodys Empire (Guitar)

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Lying on my bed I was reading french

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With the light too bright for my senses

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From this hiding place, life was way too much

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It was loud and rough round the edges

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So I faced the wall when an old man called

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Out of dreams that I would die there

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But a sight unseen, you were pulling strings

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And you had a different idea

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I was like a child, I was light as straw

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When my father lifted me up there

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Took me to a place where they checked my body

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My soul was floating in thin air

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I clung to the bed, and I clung to the past

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And I clung to the welcome darkness

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But at the end of the night, there's a green green light

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It's the quiet before the madness

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There was a girl that sang like the chime of a bell

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She put out her arm and she touched me when I was in hell      when I was in hell

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Someone sang a song and I sang along

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Cause I knew the words from my childhood

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Intellect, ambition they fell away

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They locked me up for my own good

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But I didn't mind cause the silence was kind

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And you spoke to me in whispers

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There was the sound of the wind in the cold cold dawn

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And the quiet hum of a business

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Let me dangle a while in this waiting room

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I don't need to go I don't need to know what you're doing           

    G
to know what you're doing

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Lying on my side you were half awake and your face was tired and crumpled

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If I had a camera I'd snap you now cos there's beauty in every stumble

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We are out of practise we're out of sight

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On the edge of nobody's empire

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If we live by books and we live by hope

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Does that make us targets for gunfire?

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Now I look at you you're a mother of two

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You're a quiet revolution

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Marching with the crowd singing dirty and loud

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For the people's emancipation

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Did I do ok, did I pave the way

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Was I strong when you were wanting

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I was tied to the yoke with a decent bloke

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Who was stern but never daunting

        Dm
And he told me to push and he made me feel well

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And he told me to leave that vision of hell to the dying        oh to the dying