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Does he kiss your eyelids in the morning
when you start to raise your head?
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And does he sing to you incessantly
from the place between your bed and wall?
FA#m
Does he walk around all day at school
with his feet inside your shoes?
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Looking down every few steps
to pretend he walks with you?
FA#m
Does he know that place below your neck
that is your favorite to be touched?
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And does he cry through broken sentences
like "I love you far too much"?
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Does he lay awake listening to your breath?
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Worried that you smoke too many cigarettes?
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Is he coughing now on a bathroom floor?
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For every speck of tile there are a thousand more
MI
That you won't ever see
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But must hold inside yourself eternally
FA#m
I drug your ghost across the country
and we plotted out my death
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In every city, memories would whisper
"Here is where you rest"
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I was determined in Chicago
But I dug my teeth into my knees
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And I settled for a telephone
Sang into your machine
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"You are my sunshine,
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My only sunshine.
FA#m
You are my sunshine
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My only sunshine"
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FA#m
I kissed a girl with a broken jaw
That her father gave to her
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She had eyes bright enough to burn me
They reminded me of yours
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And in a story told she was a little girl
In a red-rouge, sun-bruised field
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And there were rows of ripe tomatoes
Where a secret was concealed
FA#m
And it rose like thunder
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Clapped under our hands
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And it stretched for centuries
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To a diary entry's end where I wrote
FA#m
"You make me happy (WHAT?)
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When the skies are gray
FA#m
You make me happy (WHAT?)
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When skies are gray and gray and gray"
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Well the clock's heart it hangs inside its open chest
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With hands stretched towards the calendar hanging itself
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But I will not weep for those dying days
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For all the ones who've left there are a few that stayed
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And they found me here and pulled me from the grass
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Where I was laid
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