The Shins – Sphagnum Esplanade (Guitar)

   Bb5      Bb
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Gm  Dm       F
how lonely I find

     Bb5  C5 D5 Gm
will tend to my mind

Dm        Bb    D
along this mossy trail

    Gm  Dm       F
and how coyly it hides

    Bb5   C5 D5 Gm
the truth about how

   Dm    Bb      D
it is we can ask how

Bb          Cm
crowds jump to their deaths

Eb                       Bb    F
from the bridges I drive by tonight

Bb                   Cm
they miss out on it all

                            Eb
the whole gist that as they fall

                            Bb
you're not expected to know why

            F
it's such a short time

F
and there are stanzas never meant to rhyme

Gm  Dm       F
far better I find

  Bb5 C5   D5 Gm     Dm
it is when we try to spend

Bb      D
the ??? ????

Gm   Dm      F
with no real rationale

   Bb5  C5  D5 Gm         Dm
we step out of bounds and think

      Bb       D
and escape the lies

    Bb
and we've marched,

Cm          Eb
so long but we've much farther

           Bb      F
than we've gone to go

    Bb               Cm
and we'll make a new ship

                   Eb
cristen it for the trip

                      Bb        F
with a toddler at the helm this time

F
and there are things we never will define