Chords for Folk Alley Sessions: Peter Mulvey - "The Other Morning Over Coffee"

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[B] _ _ _ [A] _ _ _ _ [D#] _
[F#m] _ [E] _ _ _ _ [A] _ _ _
[E] _ _ _ [B] _ _ _ [E] _
The [C#m] other morning over coffee you [E] told me that lately you've been looking in the mirror
and _ smiling back at a fellow soldier who is fighting the good fight against the [B] big, [A] sad,
empty inside.
_ And that may not be happiness, but [D#m] it's as [Em] close as someone like you gets.
Yes, [A] and I believe [E] you.
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_ [E] _ _ Because I [C#m] have listened to all [E] your bullshit theories about how you're gonna get it together. _ _ _
Every one of them involved some future turning point where you became a completely different [B] person.
_ [Em] _ [F#m] But the other [B] morning over coffee all that you [A] were talking about was dealing with the
person you [Em] probably always gonna be, and [E] that's us. _ _ _ _
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[F#m] _ _ _ [E] _ _ _ _ _
_ _ [C#m] _ _ _ _ [F#] _ _
[B] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ [Em] _ _ Do you remember [C#m] that time when we were both drunk off [Em] our ass and we were talking about
how we had lived lives so full of poetry and adventure [E] that if we died right then and there
it would have been fine.
_ It would have been [A] fine.
Only we didn't die.
[Am] And we woke up so hungover it felt like little [G] furry creatures had [E] crawled into our mouths
and then died there. _ _
_ _ Well, I do. _ _ _
Oh, and [A] then there was your grand idea [E] about how all of her imperfections were perfect
for you because they shoved you off your spot and they forced you to grow and to change
as [B] a human being.
And [Em] the next [A] night you [G#m] said, I cannot live [A] for one more minute under the roof with this
crazy self [E]-destructive chaotic killjoy.
[Em] _ _ [E] Okay, well, well, there it is.
And, [A] uh, _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ [E] _ _ _ _ [C#m] _
_ _ _ [F#] _ _ [B] _ _ _
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[Em] _ _ _ _ [E] You've always taken pains to say thank you for listening to these sad, sad stories and
at this point in our friendship, I believe that I can honestly say you're welcome.
I'm a pretty good listener.
[B] I get it [A] from my mother.
But [B] there is one thing that has always [A] bothered me about this friendship.
One thing that I owe it [E] to you to say.
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_ _ I'm just swimming [C#m] upstream.
_ _ _ _ _ _ I'm only [B] swimming upstream. _ _ _
Just like you for the life of me.
[C#m] _ _ _ _ _ _ [B] _
We're both just swimming [E] upstream. _ _
_ _ _ _ I'm only swimming [C#m] upstream.
_ [E] _ _ _ _
_ _ I'm just swimming [B] upstream.
_ _ _ _ Just like you _ for the life of [G#] me, _ _ _ for the [B] life of me, _ _ _ [E] for the life of me.
_ [C#] _ _ _ _ [E] _ _ _ _ [Em] _ _ _ _ _
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