Studying Stones Chords by Ani Difranco

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_ [Bb] _ _ [Cm] _ _ _ [C] I am out here studying stones, [Ab] [C] trying to learn to be less alive.
[Fm] [Ab] Using all of my will [Bb] to keep very still, still even [C] on the inside.
I've cut all of the pertinent wires, [Bb] so my eyes can't make that connection.
[Ab] I am holding my [Bb] breath.
I am feigning my [Cm] death when I'm looking in your direction.
Of course, [Eb] mom is an old hat.
[Db] Old as my oldest memories.
[Ab] See, that one's my [Bb] mother, and that one's my [Cm] father,
and that one in the hat, that's me.
[C] It's a skill I've hoped [Eb] to abandon when [Bb] I got out on the open road.
[Cm] But any more pent-up emotion, [Bb] I think I'm going to [Cm] explode. _ _ _ _ _
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[Bb] _ [Cm] _ _ _ _ There's never been an endeavor so strange [Bb] as trying
to slow the blood in my veins.
[Fm] To keep my face blank [Gm] as a stone that just sank and a death [C] that ripple [Cm] remains.
I am high above the tree line, [Bb] sitting cross-legged on the ground.
[Ab] When all the forbidden [Bb] fruit is fallen and rotted,
[C] well, that's when I'm going to come down.
[Eb] Of course, mom is an old hat.
[Db] Old as my oldest memories.
[Ab] See, that one's my mother, [Bb] and that one's my [Cm] father,
and that one in the hat, that's me.
It's a skill I've hoped to [Eb] abandon when I [Bb] got out on the open road.
But any [Cm] more pent-up emotion, [Ab] I think [Cm] I'm going to explode. _ _ _ _ _
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