Hejira Chords by Joni Mitchell

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_ [B] _ _ I'm traveling in some vehicle _
_ _ [A] _ I'm sitting in [E] some cafe
_ A [A] defector from the petty [E] wars That shall [B] shove love away _ _ _
_ _ There's [F#] comfort in melancholy _ _ [A] _ _ When there's no [E] 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 [B] much could not be expressed _
_ [F#m] So now I [E] am returning to myself [F#] These things that [E] you and I suppressed
[F#] _ _ [B] I see [E] something of myself in everyone _ Just at [B] this moment of the world
_ _ Snow [F#] gathers like bolts of lace [E] _ _ Waltzing on a ballroom girl
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_ _ _ _ _ [F#] _ You know it never has been [B] easy _ [E] Whether _ you do or you do not resign
[A] Whether you travel the breadth of [E] extremities Or stick to some [B] straighter line
_ _ _ _ _ _ [F#] Now [B] here's a man and a woman sitting on a rock [A] They're either gonna thaw [E] out or _ freeze
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Strains [E] of benny goodman coming through the snow And the pinewood [B] trees _ _ _ _ _
_ [E] I'm porous with travel fever But you know I'm so [B] glad to be on my own _ _
Still [E] somehow the slightest touch of a [F#] stranger _ Can [E] set a trembling in my [B] bones
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[B] I know [E] no one's gonna show me _ everything We [B] all come and go I know _
Each so [F#] deep and superficial _ _ [E] Between [B] _ the forceps and the stone
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_ _ [B] _ When I looked at the granite markers [E] [F#m] Those _ [A] tributes to [E] finality, to [Bm] eternity
And then I looked at myself here [E]
Chicken scratching for my [B] immortality _ _ _
_ _ [C#] _ [F#] In the church they light the [B] candles _ [Bm] _ [A] And the wax [E] rolls down like tears
[A] There is the [E] hope and the hopelessness I've witnessed [B] thirty years _ _ _
We're [E] only particles of [B] change I know I [E] know
_ [B] Orbiting around the sun _ _ _ But how can [E] I have that point of view
_ [F#] When I'm always [E] bound and tied to someone
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White [E] flags of winter _ _ chimneys Weighing [B] truce against the moon _ _
In [F#] the mirrors of a modern bay _ [E] From [B] _ [E] the window of a hotel _ room _
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_ [F#] I'm [B] _ _ traveling in some vehicle [F#m] Sitting _ [E] _ in some cafe
I [A] defected from the petty wars [E]
Until _ [B] love sent me back that way _
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