The Antlers – Sylvia An Introduction (Guitar)

               G               Bm
When you were younger, you had nightmares

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You had scissor-pain and phantom limbs

    Em                Am
And things that kept you nervous

             C                 D
Through that twelve-year interim

         G                  Bm
When you fell crossing that street

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South of Houston, old Manhattan land

      Em                  Am
Those nightmares fell from building-tops

    C               D
And took you by the hand

             G                  Bm
And you were brought into those rooms

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With sliding curtains, shining children's heads

    Em                Am
And one of them, that boy

           C            D
Was not as lucky as you then

       G                 Bm
But he returns to you at night

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Just when you think you might have fallen asleep

    Em         Am
His face is up against yours

               C            D
And you're too terrified to speak

Am       D
Oh, Sylvia

Am       D
Oh, Sylvia

Em                         Am
You may think that I'm not listening

      C              D
But I am, goddamn, I am

        G              Bm
I won't pretend I understand

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Because I can't, and know I never will

    Em                  Am
But something makes you sting

              C                 D
And something makes you want to kill

            G                Bm
It made you crawl under that house

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And stick your head under the stove

 Am                  C                   D
In those complicated nightmares that you wove

Am       D
Oh, Sylvia

Am       D
Oh, Sylvia

        Em                 Am
You may think that I'm not listening

   C              D
But I am, goddamn, I am