The Center Of The World Chords by Bright Eyes

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_ _ _ At the center _ of [Bm] the room, _ there's a statue _ [F#] of a girl.
[Em] _ She is standing _ near a [C] well. _
With [D] a bucket _ bare [G] and dry, I went and looked her in [F#] the eye.
And she turned me _ into [Am] some, _ this clumsy form that I _ _ [C] despise.
It scattered _ [D] _ easily in her [G] _ hand, then came to rest _ upon [Bm] a beach.
_ With a million _ others _ [Am] there, we sat and waited _ for the [C] sea to stretch out
so that [D] we could _ _ [G] disappear _ _ into the _ _ endlessness of [Bm] blue,
_ [B] into the [Bm] horror of [A] the truth.
_ _ You see, we are far less [Am] than we [C] knew.
_ Yeah, we [D] are far less than [Em] we knew. _ _ _ _
But we knew what we could [C] _ _ taste.
_ _ Girl-style honey to drench [Em]
our hands.
_ The men cut marble to mark [B] our _ _ _ graves.
Said we'll need something [G] to _ remind us of all the sweetness [B] that has passed through us.
The priest dressed children for [Em] choir, _ _ _ but found no joy in what [B] was sung.
_ [C] The funeral [D] had [G] begun.
_ In the middle of the [Bm] day, _ when you drive home to your [Am] _ place,
from that job that makes [C] you sleep back to the [D] thoughts that keep [A] you [G] awake,
long after night has come to [Bm] _ claim any _ light that still _ [Am] _
remains in the [A] corner of the [C] _ frame.
That still [D]
burns _ around [G] our _ face.
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Girls just [Bm] want to know _ _ _ _ _ [E] the alarm clock's going off, but you're not waking up.
This [C] isn't happening, happening, happening, [D] happening, happening.
It is.
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