Hejira Chords by Joni Mitchell

[C#] _ [C#m] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
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[B] _ I'm traveling in some vehicle _ _
[A] _ I'm sitting in [E] some cafe
I'm sitting in [A] a defector from the petty [E] wars that shall shove [B] love away _ _ _ _
_ There's comfort in melancholy _ _
[E] _ [A] _ when there's [E] no need to explain
It's just [A] as natural as the [E] weather in this moody [B] sky today _ _ _ _
In our [E] possessive coupling _ _ so much [B] could not be expressed _ _
[F#] So now [E] I am returning to [F#] myself _ these things that [E] you and I suppressed
_ [F#] _
_ [B] I see [E] something of myself in everyone just at this [B] moment of the world _
As snow [F#] gathers like bolts of lace _
[E] _ _ waltzing on a ballroom girl _
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_ _ _ _ [F#] You know it never has been easy [B] _ [E] whether you do or you do not resign
Whether [A] you travel the breadth of [E] extremities or step to [B] some straighter line _
_ _ _ _ _ Now here's a man and a woman sitting on a rock
[E] _ [A] _ They're either gonna thaw [E] out or freeze
The [F#m] strains of [E] any good man coming through the snow and the pinewood [B] trees
_ _ _ _ I'm [E] porous with travel fever _ but you know I'm so [B] glad to be on my own _ _
Still somehow [E] the slightest touch of a stranger [F#] _ _
can set a [E] trembling in my _ [F#] bones
[B] I know [E] no one's gonna show me everything _ we all [B] come and go unknown
_ Each so deep [F#] and superficial _ [E] between _ [B]
the forceps and the [E] stone _ _
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_ [D] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ [B] _ When I look at the granite markers _
[E] [F#m] those [A] tributes to [E] finality to eternity
[A] And then I look at myself [E] here chicken scratching [B] for my immortality _ _ _ _
[E] _ [C#] _ [F#] In the church they light the candles [B] _ [F#m] and the [E] wax rolls down like tears
_ [F#m] There is the hope [E] and the hopelessness I've [B] witnessed thirty years _ _ _
[E] We're only particles of change I know I know _ [B] orbiting around the sun
_ _ _ But how can I have [E] that point of view _ [F#] when I'm always bound [E] and tied to someone
[F#] _ White [E] flags of winter _ chimneys weighing [B] truce against the moon
In _ the [F#] mirrors of a modern bay [E] from _ [B]
the [E] window of a hotel room
_ I'm _
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[C#m] _ [B] _ _ traveling in some vehicle _
_ [A] _ [E] sitting in some cafe _
I [A] defected from the petty wars [E] _ until [B] love sucked me right away _ _ _
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