Bright Eyes – Haligh Haligh A Lie Haligh (Guitar)

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Chords

Another option for playing this is to capo on 2 and start on Em.
[Intro]
E|--------2-----------2-------------------------------------|
G|----------2-----------2----------3-2----------------------|
B|------2-----2-----2-----2--------2-2---------4------------|
D|----4---------4-0----------0---2-----2----4--4------------|
A|-----------------------------0------------2--2--2h4p2-----|
E|----------------------------------------------------------|
[Verse]
F#m      Dmaj7         Aadd11  A   Bm
The phone slips from a loose       grip

F#m      Dmaj7         Aadd11  A   Bm
Words were missed, then some apology

F#m              Dmaj7      
I didn't want to tell you this

          Aadd11      A      Bm                 
No, it's just some guy she's been hanging out with

F#m         D                        Aadd11      A      Bm
    I don't know, the past couple of weeks, I  guess

F#m                Dmaj7          
Thank you and hang up the phone

        Aadd11      A           Bm
Let the funeral start, hear the casket close

      F#m               Dmaj7        Aadd11  A  Bm
Let's pin split-black ribbon to your overcoat

F#m                      Dmaj7              
The laughter pours from under doors 

        Aadd11     A       Bm                
in this house I don't understand that sound no more

F#m           Dmaj7          Aadd11  A   G
    Seems artificial, like a T.V. set
[Chorus]
Bm
Haligh, Haligh, a lie, Haligh

       A
This weight, it must be satisfied

      G
You offer only one reply

    A
You know not what you do

       Bm
As you tear and tear your hair from roots

   A
Of that same head you've twice removed

      G
Now a lock of hair you said would prove

    A
Our love would never die

               Bm
Well, ha ha ha
[Verse 2]
F#m       Dmaj7
I remember everything

      A               Bm            
The words we spoke on freezing South Street

F#m                   Dmaj7
   All those mornings watching you

A                 Bm
Get ready for school

F#m                    Dmaj7
You combed your hair inside that mirror

            A        
The one you painted blue

    Bm                 
And glued with jewelry tears

F#m                     Dmaj7
  Something about those bright colors

             A                  Bm
Would always make you feel better

F#m                   Dmaj7
But now we speak with ruined tongues

        A                   Bm          
And the words we say aren't meant for anyone

F#m                    Dmaj7
   It's just a mumbled sentence to

  A              Bm
A passing acquaintance, but there was once you

F#m                  Dmaj7               A
You said you hate my suffering, and you understood

     Bm                
And you'd take care of me

F#m              Dmaj7
    You'd always be there

      A                    G
Well, where are you now?
[Chorus]
  Bm
Haligh, Haligh, a lie, Haligh

     A
The plans were never finalized

     G
But left to hang like yarn and twine

      A
Dangling before my eyes

       Bm
As you tear and tear your hair from roots

      A
From that same head that you have twice removed

        G
Now, a lock of hair you said would prove

     A
Our love would never die

       Bm
And I sing and sing of awful things

       A
The pleasure that my sadness brings

        G
As my fingers press onto the strings

      A
Yet another clumsy chord

Bm
Haligh, Haligh, an awful lie

       A
This weight would now be satisfied

           G
I'm gonna give you only one reply

   A
I know not who I am
[Bridge]
      F#m            G
But I talk in the mirror

          A            D
To the stranger that appears

                                 Bm
Our conversations are circles

             G                 A
Always one sided, nothing is clear

           F#m          G
Except we keep coming back

          A             D
To this meaning that I lack

                              Bm
He says the choices were given

                   G
And now, you must live them

              A
Or just not live

                 Bm
But do you want that?