Chords for Indigo Girls - Closer to Fine

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[E] _ _ [E] _ [A] I'm trying to tell you something [D] about my life
[F#] _ Maybe give me insight between black [D] and white
[E] And the best thing you've ever [D] done for me
_ [E] Is to help me take my life less [D] seriously.
Hey, it's only [A] life after all
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_ [B] The darkness has a hunger [D] that's insatiable
[E] _ [A] And lightness has [F#] a cold that's hard to bear
I'm running, [E] _ I'll wrap my fury around it like [D] a blanket
I [E] sail my ship to safety till I [D] sink it
I'm [A] crawling on the shore
I [E] went to the doctor
I went to the [A] mountains
[E] I look to the children
[D] I drank from the fountain
[E] Yeah, but there's more than one answer to these [D] questions
One in the [A] African eye
_ [E] Unless I speak my soul
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Closer [A] I am to [Bm] fire
_ [F#] Yeah, I [A] went to see the [Bm] doctor of philosophy
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With [A] a few [F#m] teens and a bit damn too [E] busy
He never did marry [D] or see the great movie
He [E] graded my performance
He [D] said he could see through me.
Well, that's [A] been four years of my [E] life crossed straight to the [D] higher mind.
I got
[E] _ _ [A] _ _ _ [E] to the doctor
I went to [A] the mountains
[E] I look to the children
[F#m] I drank [A] from the fountain.
Yeah, [E] well, there's more than one answer to [A] these questions
One in the African eye
_ [E] Unless I speak my soul
[Bm] I _ [D] _
_ [A] stopped _ [B] _ _ _ _
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[E] _ _ [A] _ _ [F#m] _ _ _ _
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[E] by _ [A] _ _ [F#] _ _ _ _
[E] _ _ [A] _ _ _ [B] _ _ [E] _
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[E] _ _ [A] _ _ [Bm] about 3 a [E].m
[A] To see if he saw us [Bm] in a bottle
or possibly [E] a friend
I woke up with a headache like [D] my head against the board
[E] A twice as cloudy as [D] the night before I went seeking clarity
[A] _ [E] I went to the doctor I went to the mountains
I look to the children
And I drank [A] from the fountain.
Here [E] we go to the doctor
We [B] go
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To the children we drink [A] from the fountain we [E] go to the bible
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[E] There's more than one answer to [D] all these questions just keep pointing this [A] in the
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[F#m] Those
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