Sufjan Stevens – Murder And Crime (Guitar Fingerpicking)

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(this version just corrects the previous ones here) [Intro] (no C at the end)/Verse(includes C at the end) Em* Cmaj13 Bm7
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A7 C
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[Chorus] Am G Em** D C
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G Bm7 C
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%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% [Intro] Em* Cmaj13 Bm7 A7 [Verse 1]
Em                Cmaj13
Evidence known so long

   Bm7                 A7
Oh god, I'm lost in my wrongs

Em                    Cmaj13
Everything froze like stone

         Bm7                      A7     C
Saw your heart couldn't take much mo-o-o-ore
[Chorus]
Am G            Em**            D
My boy, I don't know why this life

      C           G           Bm7          C
Is so cruel and unkind but it weighs on my heart

Am  G           Em            D
All joys were taken from your eyes

       C          G       Bm7        C
As the law would abide in murder and crime

Am   G            Em       D
Hard lines as the fossil defines

        C         G          Bm7          C
Its own shadow in lime and reveals how it dies

Em* Cmaj13 Bm7 A7
(Ah-ah-ah-ah)
[Verse 2]
Em                                  Cmaj13
If anything goes, then everything's flawed

      Bm7                         A7
Oh my love, what the violence has caused

Em                        Cmaj13
Malevolence flowed from beyond

       Bm7                    A7     C
And my heart cannot take much mo-o-o-ore
[Chorus]
Am G        Em**        D
Oh joy I'm afraid of the light

       C           G           Bm7      C
As the jewel of my mind begins to fall apart

Am        G             Em         D
Do not destroy what has taken it's time

       C           G       Bm7       C
As the Lord would abide in murder and crime

Am                  Em            D
Oh my love, I don't know why this life

      C           G           Bm7          C
Is so cruel and unkind but it weighs on my heart

Am     G            Em     D
Fading lines as the fossil denies

        C             G          Bm7         C
Its own shadow in the time to conceal how it died
[Verse 3]
Em*                  Cmaj13
Evidence known, march on

   Bm7                   A7
Oh god, I'm lost in the antiphon

Em                                         Cmaj13
Where does everything go when everything's gone?

       Bm7                     A7     C
For my heart cannot break much mo-o-o-ore