Bright Eyes – Haligh Haligh A Lie Haligh (Ukulele)

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Chords

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 ----------------------------------------------------------|

F#m      D            A    Bm
The phone slips from a loose grip

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

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

          A                   Bm              F#m
No, it's just some guy she's been hanging out with

         D                         A       Bm
I don't know, the past couple of weeks, I guess

F#m                D           
Thank you and hang up the phone

        A                         Bm
Let the funeral start, hear the casket close

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

F#m                      D                    A
The laughter pours from under doors in this house

               Bm                F#m
I don't understand that sound no more

             D            A    G
Seems artificial, like a T.V. set

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

F#m       D
I remember everything

      A                 Bm            F#m
The words we spoke on freezing South Street

                      D
All those mornings watching you

 A              Bm
Get ready for school

F#m                    D
You combed your hair inside that mirror

           A
The one you painted blue

     Bm                 F#m
And glued with jewelry tears

                        D
Something about those bright colors

              A             Bm
Would always make you feel better

F#m                     D
But now we speak with ruined tongues

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

                       D
It's just a mumbled sentence to

    A     Bm
A passing acquaintance
But there was once you
F#m                     D               A
You said you hate my suffering, and you understood

     Bm                F#m
And you'd take care of me

             D
You'd always be there

        A              G
Well, where are you now?

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

      Bm            G
But I talk in the mirror

          A            D
To the stranger that appears

                             G
Our conversations are circles

             G                 A
Always one sided, nothing is clear

           Bm          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?
-Anders Johnsson