mewithoutYou – January 1979 (Guitar)

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  January 1979 saw a terrible crash

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(and I couldn't help but laugh) My ear pressed against the past

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Like a glass on a wall of a house in a photograph

E
  My forehead no longer sweet

     G#m
With holy kisses

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Worthy of your fiery lips I was floating in a peaceful sea

G#m
Rescued by a sinking ship

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   If I could become the servant of all

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No lower place to fall (I could be your servant)

F#                       G#m
   If I could become the servant of all

                  F#
No lower place to fall (If could be your servant)

F#                       G#m
   If I could become the servant of all

                  F#
No lower place to fall (I could be your servant)

F#                       G#m
   If I could become the servant of all

                  F#
No lower place to fall (If could be your servant)

E                                   G#m
You watch me like a ten car highway wreck with detached, vulgar curiosity

E
  This looking down on the tops of the hats

      G#m
Of us passersby from your seventh floor balcony

E
  And from such a height you missed

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Creatures too small for sight carry on covert conversation

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As the misguided insects crown me their grasshopper king with a dance of celebration

E
After years with their crown on my head

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I've grown overfed, unconcerned

                E
And comfortably numb

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Kept busy indulging in the pleasures of the wealthy (Oh, someone make me afraid of what I've become!)

E
  At the first sign of possible sorrow

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I'll turn my heel and run, (Oh, I'll never learn)

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  My life's a cup of sugar I borrowed

       G#m
Before time began and forgot to return

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  It was a matter of time

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I always said I could see But now I'm going blind (I could be your servant)

F#
  It was a matter of time

         G#m
I always said I could see But now I'm going blind (If I could be your servant)

F#
  It was a matter of time

         G#m
I always said I could see but now I'm going blind (I could be your servant)

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  It was a matter of miserable time 

      G#m
But I heard somewhere there was a cure for useless eyes (If I could be your servant)