Big Thief – Blue Lightning (Guitar)

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CAPO 1 and use C/G for added countryness [Verse 1]
     C                  G        D             C
Blue lightning was an autograph signing up the sky

      C                 G              D             C
To the question that I had to ask, she only answered why

   C                 G           D             C
Angelia took the photograph, the moment had to die

  C                  G           D              C
Years later like an epitaph, we read it and we cry

     C                  G               D          C
This morning I went to have a bath, the water ran dry

      C               G                  D          C
Clear warning, has it come at last, the time to say goodbye?

       C                  G           D            C
Can we make love, can we hold fast? I really wanna try
[Chorus]
D                   C
Two-eyed lie, is it fight or fly?

  G            D                 C
I wanna be the shoelace that you tie

 D                     C
'Til the end, will you be my friend?

  G            D               C
I wanna be the wrinkle in your eye

        G            D              C
Yeah, I wanna be the vapor gets you high
[Verse 2]
C                     G               D          C
Blue heron now you're scaring me, you circle and dive

C                        G             D             C
Blue angel, yeah, you're in my dream, swearing every night

C                 G          D             C
And a spider just beside her larger than a hill

C                            G                     D           C
And it's plain to see if she don't comfort me, the rattlesnake will
[Chorus]
D                   C
Two-eyed lie, is it fight or fly?

  G            D               C
I wanna be the wrinkle in your eye

 D                     C
'Til the end, will you be my friend?

  G            D                 C
I wanna be the shoelace that you tie

        G            D              C
Yeah, I wanna be the vapor gets you high
[Buck Solo] [Chorus]
D                   C
Two-eyed lie, is it fight or fly?

  G            D                 C
I wanna be the shoelace that you tie

D                      C
'Til the end, will you be my friend?

        G            D                 C
Yeah, I wanna be the mountain kiss the sky

        G            D              C
Yeah, I wanna be the vapor gets you high

        G             D            C
Yeah, I wanna feel so happy that I cry

        G            D                 C
Yeah, I wanna be the shoelace that you tie

        G             D           C
Yeah, I wanna live forever 'til I die

        G             D           C
Yeah, I wanna live forever 'til I die
Yeah, I [Outro] N.C. All set, okay, what should we do now?