It Started Out So Nice Chords by Rodriguez

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_ _ [C] _ It started out with butterflies on [F] a velvet afternoon.
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_ _ [C] _ Flashing eyes and promises _ _ [F] caught in hell [Am] too soon. _
_ _ [C] In a place called Aixia with [Dm] its pumpkin oval moon.
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_ _ [C] It started out so nice. _
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_ _ [C] _ Jeanne taught Orion _ [F] sea purple harmony.
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_ _ [C] _ While Cokie hid secrets _ [Am] into _ _ seashells. _
_ _ [C] And even the ocean laughed _ beneath [F] that celestial canopy. _ _ _
Because it [G] started out so nice. _ _
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_ _ [F] With the dust of stars they _ [A] intermingled.
Duroc of Yvonne would only [C] jingle.
_ Marble money tunes _ _ [Dm] as pale [Am] earthly circles _ _ [C] swung. _ _ _
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_ _ [C] _ _ Volume left Bohemia _ a [F] triangle for his thumb. _ _
_ _ [Em] _ _ Questions fell but no one stopped [F] to listen. _ _ _ _
_ _ [C] _ But eternity was just a dawn away.
And [F] the rest was sure to come.
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Leaves [C] caught in winter's ice. _ _ _
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_ _ [F] Abandoned circus grounds of flower captains.
Prisms in a palm one way it happens.
[C] The air was still but calm.
_ [Am] The softly met were slowly moving [C] on. _ _ _ _ _
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_ _ [A#] Then all [A] things in common _
[D] _ _ [G] _ suddenly [A] grew strange.
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_ _ _ _ _ [F] Now the wolves are chasing other [A] rainbows.
[F] Trying to find where the [D] wind blows [C] to empty corners.
_ [F] Past dusty _
[Am] memories.
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[F] _ _ _ _ _ [G] _ Now in the third millennium _ the [F] crowded madness [Am] came.
_ _ _ [G] _ Crooked shadows roamed through the nights.
[Am] The wizards overplayed their names.
_ _ _ [C] And after that the wars never bothered to have [F] summer reasons. _
Again.
_ But it [C] started out so nice.
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_ _ [F] _ _ [C] It started out so nice. _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ We started out so [C] nice. _ _ _ _ _ _ _
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