Chords for Merchant Ships - Sleep Patterns (lyrics in the description)

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_ _ _ _ _ _ September 9, 2001.
Gary and I were skating at a hot tub on top of a huge hill overlooking
a valley.
An ambulance came in to get a dead woman.
Gary asked me why she wasn't moving
or blinking.
They hadn't closed her eyes yet. _ _
_ _ _ She must have died on the way.
A car full
of family and friends came in with the ambulance.
They were all crying and hugging each other.
One woman screamed hysterically and grabbed at the woman's body, asking her to wake up.
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_ I had to tell Gary that her soul went to heaven.
I didn't believe a word of it, but I knew
it would be easier for him to understand.
Two days from now, at 9 a.m., planes will
hit the World [Ab] Trade Center, killing over 3,000 people.
I will tell Gary that there is no
God and all of this is meaningless, but today, there is a God and He has a plan for him. _ _
_ _ He doesn't know it, but a year from now our family will be torn apart and I will move
far away and won't see or talk to him for five years.
And as we sit on the hood of our
car, the sun goes down and he asks me what I wanted out of my life.
I tell him I don't _ _
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_ _ [Cm] _ _ know. _ _
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_ _ _ [Fm] _ On and on we run _ [Ab] away.
_ From the things we are afraid. _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ [Ab] _ I don't tell him about the dream I had the night before, where I'm riding in a car full
of strangers and singing to some song I've never heard and smoking a cigarette and we
swerve off the road into a tree.
I go through the windshield and hit the edge of a fence,
dislocating my jaw and flipping [G] me into a wall.
My neck is broken and my skull is fractured.
I bleed to death in excruciating pain. _ _ _
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I will have this dream periodically [F] until I
meet all of the strangers one by one, [Fm] introducing them all to each other until we are a close
group of friends.
I will set these [Db] events in motion and I will die.
[Ab] But today, in the
warm light of the sunset, I will see it.
I just see the sunset.
I smile back and shake
my head.