jaco pastorius - HEJIRA Chords

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[B] _ I'm traveling in some vehicle _ _
[A] _ I'm sitting in [E] some cafe _
[A] I defected from the petty [E] wars that shelved my [B] love away _ _ _ _
_ _ Discomfort and melancholy [F#] _
[E] _ [A] _ When there's [E] no need to explain
It's [A] just as natural as the [E] weather in this moody [B] sky today _ _ _ _
In [E] our possessive coupling _ _ So much [B] could not be expressed _ _
[F#] So [E] now I am returning to [F#] myself _ These things that [E] you and I suppressed
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I [B] see [E] something of myself in everyone Just at this [B] moment of the world _
_ Snow [F#] gathers like bolts of [E] lace _ _ 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 reside
Whether [A] you travel the breadth of [E] extremities Or stick [B] to 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
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Strains [E] of many good men 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 [F#] stranger Can set a trembling in [E] my [F#] bones
[B] No [E] 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 stone
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[B] When _ I look at the granite markers [E] _ [F#m] _ [A] Those tributes to [E] finality, to [F#m] eternity
And then I look at myself [E] here Chicken scratching [B] for my immortality
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[E] _ [C#] _ [F#] the church they light the candles _
[B] _ [F#m] _ And the wax [E] rolls down like tears
_ [A] 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 [E] help that point of view
_ [F#] When I'm always [E] bound and tied to someone
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[E] White 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 _
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[C#m] _ [B] Travelling _ in some vehicle _ [F#m] Sitting _ [E] in some cafe _
I [A] defected from the petty [E] wars Until _ [B] love sent me that way _ _ _
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