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 shelved sharp [B] love away _ _ _ _
_ There's comfort in [F#] melancholy _
[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
So _ [F#] now I am [E] returning to myself [F#] _
These things that [E] you and I suppressed
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_ [B] I see [E] something of myself in everyone Just at [B] this moment of the world _
_ The 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 extremities [E] Or stick to some [B] straighter line _
_ _ _ _ _ [F#] Now here's a man and a woman sitting on a rock [E] [A] They're either gonna thaw [E] out or _ freeze
This _ [F#m] strange [E] evently could melt them into 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 stranger [F#] _
Can [E] set a [F#] trembling in [E] my _ [F#] bones
[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] [F#] When I look at the granite [B] markers [E] _ [F#m] _ [A] Those tributes to [E] finality, to eternity
[F#m] And then I look at myself here [E] Chicken scratching for my [B] immortality _ _ _ _
_ [E] _ [F#] In the church they light the candles [B] _ _ [A] And the wax rolls [E] down like tears
[A] There is the hope [E] and the hopelessness I've witnessed [B] thirty years _ _
We're [E] only particles of change I know I 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 _ _ _
_ [C#m] _ _ _ _ _ Travelling _ [D] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ [C#m] _ [B] _ _ _ in some vehicle _ [F#] Sitting _ in [E] some cafe
I [A] defected from the petty wars [E] _
Until [B] love sucked me right away _ _
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