R.E.M. – Blue (Guitar)

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  Yellow circus left the stakes a broken ropes world's useless mug

                C
The ties that bind, ha ha 

                                            Em
I can be bad poet. Street poet. Shit poet.  Kind poet too

            D
Subway, Almost 4AM. Halloween night

               C
Had enough to drink to make my own party

                                Em
All my fellow writers in half costume, half asleep

                     D
Half silly, gone to seed

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I don't mark my time with dates, holidays, faded wisdom, locked karma holders

Em                D
Convenient, I am made by my times

                    C
I am a creation of now. Shaken with the cracks and crevices

                  Em
I'm not giving up easy

            D
I will not fold. I don't have much

                    C
But what I have is gold

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I saw your face...

Em
I sing in platinum. I dress in brass

          D
I eat in zinc

        C
Let it pass

Em
Compare a toast. I like that. I understand courage

                       D
I still roll with the shout of a character I was married to today

           C
I try to see outside myself

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I understand the eyes. Excuse all the highs. Sorry, I am sorry

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Ha ha

Em
I like you, love you, every coast of you.

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I've seen your eddies and tides and hurricanes and cyclones.

Em 
Low ebb tide and high, full moon. Up close and distant. I read you.

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Like, the sky, the sea, the ocean, the sun, the moon.

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Blue, blue, blue, blue, blue, blue, blue blue, blue, blue, blue, blue.

       C
Naked and blue.

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Breathing with you. Touch. Change. Shift. Allow air. Window open. Drift. Drift away. Into now.

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I want Whitman proud. Patti Lee proud. My brothers proud. My sisters proud. I want me. 

           C
I want it all. I want sensational. Irresistible.

            Em
This is my time and I am thrilled to be alive.

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Living. Blessed. I understand.

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Twentieth century:  Collapse Into Now

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  Cinde-rella boy

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  You've lost your shoe

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  Cinde-rella boy

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  Your coach awaits

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  A sun makes shadows

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  All over your face

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  As  you sit