Bright Eyes – Perfect Sonnet (Guitar)

C
Lately I've been wishing I had one desire,

Em
Something that would make me never want another,

Am
Something that would make it so that nothing matters,

E7/D
All would be clear then,

      C
but I guess I'll have to settle for a few brief moments,

    Em
and watch it all dissolve into a single second,

    Am
and try to write it down into a perfect sonnet,

    E7/D
or one foolish line

              F               G
'Cause that's all that you'll get,

           Am       E7/D
So you'll have to accept,

    F
You are here,

             G
Then you're gone

  C
I believe that lovers should be tied together,

Em
Thrown into the ocean in the worst of weather,

Am
Left there to drown, Left there to drown

             E7/D
in their innocence

    C
But as for me I'm coming to the final chapter,

Em
I've read all of the pages and there's still no answer,

Am
The only words before I know will soon come after,

             E7/D
It’s the only way it can be.

     F             G
So I stand in the sun,

     Am                 E7/D
And I breathe with my lungs,

          F            G                 Am
Trying to spare me the weight of the truth,

         C
Seeing everything you've ever seen was just a mirror,

  Em
Spend your whole life sweating in an endless fever,

Am                                    E7/D
Laying in a bathtub full of freezing water, wishing you were a ghost

     C
But once you knew a girl and you named her Lover,

     Em
And danced with her in kitchens through the greenest summers

      Am
But autumn came, she disappeared,

                     E7/D
You can't remember where she said she was going to

         F
But you know that she's gone,

              Am        E7/D
Because she left you a song,

          F            G
That you don't wanna sing

          C
Singing: I believe that lovers should be chained together,

Em
Thrown into a fire with their songs and letters,

Am                                                     E7/D
And left there to burn, left there to burn in their arrogance

    C
But as for me I'm coming to my final failure,

      Em
I've killed myself with changes trying to make things better,

           Am
But still ended up becoming something other,

      E7/D
Than what I had planned to be

    C
Now I believe that lovers should be draped in flowers,

     Em
And laid entwined together on a bed of clovers,

     Am
And left there to sleep,

                               E7/D    E7/D
Left there to dream of their happiness.

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