Bright Eyes – The Calendar Hung Itself (Guitar)

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[Verse 1]
                 F#m       
Does he kiss your eyelids in the morning
when you start to raise your head?
           C#
And does he sing to you incessantly
from the place between your bed and wall?
       F#m
Does he walk around all day at school
with his feet inside your shoes?
       C#
Looking down every few steps
to pretend he walks with you?
           F#m
Oh does he know that place below your neck
that is your favorite to be touched?
           C#
And does he cry through broken sentences
like "I love you far too much"? [Chorus]
Bm          E          A            D
Does he lay awake listening to your breath?  

Bm           E             A        D
Worried that you smoke too many cigarettes?

     E                 F#m
Is he coughing now on a bathroom floor?  

         E                         F#m
For every speck of tile there are a thousand more

              E
That you won't ever see

         C#m    E        D     E      
But must hold inside yourself eternally
F#m C# F#m C# [Verse 2]
                 F#m
Well I drug your ghost across the country
and we plotted out my death
        C#
In every city, memories would whisper
"Here is where you rest"
        F#m
I was determined in Chicago
But I dug my teeth into my knees
      C#
And I settled for a telephone
Sang into your machine
F#m
"You are my sunshine,

        C#
My only sunshine.

F#m
You are my sunshine

        C#
My only sunshine"
[Solo] Bm E A D Bm E A D Esus4 E [Verse 3]
  F#m
I kissed a girl with a broken jaw
That her father gave to her
             C#
She had eyes bright enough to burn me
They reminded me of yours
         F#m
And in a story told she was a little girl
In a red-rouge, sun-bruised field
              C#
And there were rows of ripe tomatoes
Where a secret was concealed
      F#m
And it grows like thunder

                 C#
Clapped under our hands

      F#m
And it stretched for centuries

                  C#
To a diary entry's end where I wrote

F#m
"You make me happy (WHAT?)

                   C#  
When the skies are gray

F#m
You make me happy (WHAT?)

               C#
When skies are gray and gray and gray"
[Chorus]
         Bm              E            A        D
Well the clock's heart it hangs inside its open chest

          Bm                    E        A         D
With hands stretched towards the calendar hanging itself

     E                       F#m
But I will not weep for those dying days

           E                            F#m
For all the ones who've left there are a few that stayed

        E                  C#m       E        D
And they found me here and pulled me from the grass

     E      
Where I was laid
[Outro]
 F#m       C# 
(Repeat)