Chords for Diminished Things

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_ [C#m] _ _ [E] _ _ _ _ _
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_ _ Running down the [C#m] north central [E] plains
_ _ _ _ Shaky hands holding the reins _ _ _ _ _
Sunlight's [C#m] implied [E] but dark [B] solely [A] remains
_ _ _ _ For me [C#m] I'm headed _ south
_ _ _ [A] _
_ [E] _ _ _ _ _ Blue and black [C#m] stitch sky and [E] sand _ _ _ _
Wind swept [C#m] hard and wind [E] swept land _
_ Where the [C#m] wheels the only [E] _
[B] one to take my [A] hand _ _ _ _
_ Carry [C#m] me around _
Holding all [A] that [E] lonely ground
_ _ _ _ _ [C#m] _ _ [E] _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ [C#] _
_ _ [E] _ _ _ Well I got a letter [C#m] from [E] a friend _ _ _
Said I never [C#m] let no one [E] in _ _
_ _ Like a hardened [C#] veteran, [E]
century [B] guardian
[A] _ _ _ _ _
No it never [C#m] makes a _ sound
Holding all [A] that [E] lonely _ ground
_ Well I'll be [A] alright _
[E] I swear to you [C#m] sometimes it [E] seems a lot to bear
[A] _ _ _ _ _
But with all [C#m] this rolling round _
Holding all [A] that [E] lonely ground
_ _ _ _ _ [F#] _ _ [E] _
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_ [C#] _ _ [E] _ _ [B] _ _ [A] _
[E] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ [C#m] _
_ _ _ _ _ _ [A] _ _
_ [E] _ _ _ _ _ _
Strangers [C#m] in a foreign [E] land _ _ _
Couldn't care [C#m] much less [E] understand _
That _ it's past [C#m] like protest [E]
masks in a second [A] hand
I _ _ keep my [C#m] eyes to the ground
And _ [A] _ _ _ [E] _ _ _
_ _ I met a girl down in Knott Springs
I _ _ said I don't do [C#m] that kind of thing
[E] She _ _ said boy [C#m] don't [E] confuse a friend with [A] a fling
We're _ _ both [C#m] just new in town
_ Holding all [A] that [E] lonely _ ground
_ Well you'll be [A] alright
_ [E] Take care and hide [C#] it [B] in a soft [E] chair
[A]
Cause _ _ _ _ _ [E] tomorrow's [C#m] another town
_ Holding [A] all that [E] lonely _ ground
_ Well you [A] can cry out if [E] you want to
You [A] can make the [E] midnight [B] ring
[A] From the _ hollows [C#m] that haunt you
[B] You can find most [E] _ anything
[A] Like right words [E] to sing
_ [B] _
Under [A] cold diminished [E] _ _ [B]
things
[A] That beat on your [E] heart _
[A] While your voice cuts [E] through the dark
[B] While letting [A] _ on [C#m] all the bad
_ [E] _
Silence ain't [A] the only sound _
_ _ _ [C#m] _ _ _ _ _
Holding [A] all that [E] lonely _ ground
_ _ _ [B] _ _ [C#m] _ _ [E] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ [C#m] _
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