Indigo Girls – Caramia (Ukulele)

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Caramia - a blank notebook and a back pocket fade...

            Em
You used to mock me;

                  G
Sometimes I would cry

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When I was home later.

          B7
Why, why, why?

                      Em
Write it down in your notebook,

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My wannabe Harriet the spy.

              Bm7
Some say your genius

           Em7
Is in your madness;

             Dm
Will you get better?

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And then will you leave us?

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How you mixed with the darkness

                D
At such a young age!

              Em
Until in your chemistry

            G
Science and violence

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Turned silence to rage.

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Why...       are you dreaming this?

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One shoe off, and a bridge to cross over.

D5    D5/B        D5/C#      D5
And where is your taxi fare?

        Am          Am/B
Are you left by yourself

    Am/C        Asus2
Or left by your lover?

    D5                    D5/B
For three nights straight now

                 D5/C#      D5
I dreamed I kept both of my shoes,

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But I've forgotten my lines, and

    Am/C        Asus2
I've misplaced my cues;

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And there's a sea full of faces

      D/C#
And a show to go on;

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And I'm struck mute at entrance

    Am/C        Asus2
With nothing to draw from!

D
There were the secrets: the big bang

        E
And the bigger joke.

                 Em
You seem to know all of them

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And injustice makes you red with choke.

                         B7
You don't know what love is!

                       Em
I thought if there was one thing I could give you,

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One thing I could tell you,

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Maybe it was this...

                      Bm7
With your head on the bed board,

                Em7
The anguished repeat;

               Dm
The sweat of our sadness--

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The twist of the sheets.

             G
I don't want what's best for you!

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     Where would I be if you found it?

                               Em
I prayed a lot about these bad feelings inside,

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But I can't pray my way through or around it.