Suicide Underground Chords by Air

Everyone dated the demise of our neighborhood from the suicides of the Lisbon girls
_ _ People saw their clairvoyance in the wiped out elms and harsh sunlight
_ _ Some thought the tortures [C] tearing the Lisbon girls pointed to a simple refusal to accept the world as it was handed down to them
so full [Db] of flaws
But _ _ the only thing we are certain of after all these years is the insufficiency of [Ab] explanations
_ _ Obviously doctor _ you've never been a 13 year old girl _ _ _ _
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The Lisbon girls were 13 Cecilia _
_ [Db] _ _ 14 Bucks _ _ 15 Bonnie
_ _ 16 [Fm] Mary and
_ [Ab] _ 17 _ Therese
_ No one could [Bb] understand how mrs.
Lisbon and mr.
Lisbon _
our math teacher
_ Had produced such beautiful creatures
[Gm] _ From [C] that time on the Lisbon house began to change _ _ _ _ _
[Bbm] Almost every day even when she wasn't [Fm] keeping an eye on Cecilia Lux would suntan on her towel
Wearing a swimsuit that caused the knife sharpener to give [C] a 15 minute demonstration for free
_ The _ only reliable [Db] boy who got to know Lux was Trip Fontaine _
Who only 18 months before the suicides had emerged from baby fat to the [Ab] delight of girls and mothers alike _
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But few anticipated it would be so drastic the _
_ _ _ [C] _ girls were pulled out of school and mrs.
Lisbon shut the house from maximum security isolation
[Db] The _ _ _ _ _ _ _ girls only contact with the outside world was through [Fm] the catalogs
They ordered the started [Ab] to fill the Lisbon's mailbox with pictures of high-end fashions and brochures for exotic [Bb] vacations
_ Unable _ _ to go anywhere the girls traveled in their imaginations
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the gold [C]-tipped Siamese temples
_ Or pass an old man's relief book tidying a [Fm] moss carpet spec of Japan
_ _ _ And Cecilia hadn't died
She was a bride in Calcutta
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_ Collecting everything we could of theirs we couldn't get the Lisbon girls out of our minds
_ But [Db] they were slipping away
The colors of their eyes were fading along with exact locations of moles and dimples
[Fm] From five they'd [Ab] become four
They were all Coming _ _ shadows
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[Bb] We would have lost them completely if the girls hadn't contacted us
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[Fm] Lux was the last to go _ _ _
Fleeing from the house.
We've gotten stopped garage
_ After the [C] suicide free for all mr.
And mrs.
Lisbon gave up any attempt to lead a normal life
_ [Db] _ We had mr.
Heavy pack up the house selling what furniture he could in a garage sale _
_ Everyone went [Ab] just to look
_ Our _ parents did not buy used furniture.
They certainly didn't buy furniture tainted by [Bb] death
We _ _ _ _ _ _ of course took family photos that he put out in [C] the trash
Mr.
Lisbon put the house on the market _ _ was sold to a young couple in Boston
[Fm] _ _ _ _ Didn't matter in the end how old they had been
But that they were girls
_ But only that we had loved them _
And that they hadn't [A] heard us call _ _
[E] Still did not hear us calling them out of those rooms where they went to be alone for all time
_ alone [B] in suicide
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Where _ _ we will [E] never find the pieces to put [Eb] them back together _ _ _ _ _