The Antlers – Revisited (Guitar)

F                          Em
When some unfamiliar faces came to shop in our old house,

Dm                                  C
I didn't bother trying to stop them until they emptied it out.

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I was standing by the front door, stuffing cash in a jar, taking payment for our failures,

C
I only wanted to alarm you.

F                                     Em 
So when they asked me for directions, I sold them our map,

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I sold our shovels and our flashlights,

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They took our duffel bag with a ton of room, but a broken strap.

F                                     Em
The hungry patrons hit the graveyard, I lit a joint in the house

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Where there was nothing but our mattress and the same soft shelter of sheets

F                               Em
I let them strip your mausoleum so nothing was left

Dm           
But they forgot to close the casket,

C
They sent you shivering to my doorstep

F                           Em 
Gently clawing at my window when I was less than awake

Dm 
I slid it up for you to slither through

C
I heard you howling

                    F
Just take me to the rusty city we perfected

Em            
That holy summer we first found!

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The place you're stubbornly protecting is the only pretty thing that we own now.

F                             Em 
And we can stay here to wither in your garden of Eden

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But your fantasy's a prison and you're serving a sentence you can't stop repeating

F                            Em 
Can you see the secret exit? The false wall in obsession?

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You'll only fit through the doorway when you relinquish your possessions

F                                 Em 
So leave everything you've stolen that you can't give back

Dm                                         C
And don't replace what you've been missing until you know what you're lacking

F                                Em 
Leave everything you've borrowed and kept for yourself

Dm                                                       C
You can't unbreak our broken leases holding on to broken pieces, so return them!