Big Thief – Incomprehensible (Guitar)

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Let me be
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Incomprehensible

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Highway 17, cotton candy rain

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Driving with my lover, we missed our plane

F
So we added on the hours to see the lupine flowers

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Way out past the border, we blew through Thunder Bay

C
The pine trees are narrow, a billion broken arrows

Am
The ravens and the crows, robins and the sparrows

F
All across Ontario, just static on the stereo

Dm
And swimming in the lake, Old Woman Bay

C
Traveling with some stuff I left when I was a kid

Am
Mr. Bear and the wooden box I hid

F
Full of broken gadgets that don't mean nothing now

Dm
The only thing I'll keep are the letters and the photographs

C
In two days it's my birthday and I'll be 33

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But that doesn't really matter next to eternity

F
And I like a double number, and I like an odd one too

Dm
And everything I see from now on will be something new

C
"I'm afraid of getting older", that's what I learned to say

Am
'Cause society has given me the words to think that way

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The message spins and spirals, "Don't get saggy, don't get grey"

Dm
But the soft and lovely silvers are now falling on my shoulder

C
My mother and my grandma, my great-grandmother too

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They wrinkle like the river, sweeten like the dew

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And as silver as the rainbow scales that shimmer purple blue

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How can beauty that is living be anything but true?

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So let gravity be my sculptor, let the wind do my hair

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Let me dance in front of people without a care

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Let me be naked alone with nobody there

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Or with mismatched socks and shoes and stuff stuffed in my underwear

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Incomprehensible

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Incomprehensible