Polaroids Chords by Shawn Colvin

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[F#] She's no more [C#] there, oh, he [B] Mother, [C#] take care [F#] of me
Piece me [C#] together [F#] with a [G#m] needle and thread [F#] Wrap me in [C#] [F#] either, now
Lace from your wedding gown for me And lay me down on [G#m] your [B] bed
Or like a needle or a shoe [A#] Black and then split, sewn [F#] through
[A] Kicking back home to you Smiling back [C#]
[F#] home to you
Singing back [C#] home [F#] to you Laughing back home [D#m] to you
[G#m] Dragging back home to you
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[F#] I was so [C#] wary that [F#] the ugly American Had better than [C#] oxygen, [F#] tough [G#m] as a [F#] whore
I said, you can lie to me I own [B] what's [F#] inside of me
Nothing [B] surprises me [G#m] anymore
[B] But for us in Germany, [F#] kids in their two-leries [A] Broken down fortresses in old [C#] Italy
[F#] And claiming his victory, shrouded in mystery [G#m] He went running away with me, yeah
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[F#] Oh, I'm back in our home in New York [B] Walking [F#] these streets for long
We all in our uniforms, [B] [G#m] black and black [F#] We're doing that slouch and jive
[B] The [F#] artist must survive We've got all we need
We cry and we don't [G#m] look back
[B] And the flim-king we had [F#] in bed Voiced for the hip [A] parade
And he deep in accolade The conceptual [C#] bear
[F#] But he's cleverer than Malcolms And he left without [D#m] incident
[G#m] Vanished into thin air
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[F#] _ _ _ _ _ [G#m] I'm in _
[F#] the hall, _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ I'm [G#m] in the hall
With [B] my eyes _ _ [F#] _ _
[A] closed
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I am always amazed Words can fill up a page
Read to spill [B] out the days Between [G#m] him and me
[F#] But a thousand will be never seen From bedrooms to business speech
Me remember how cheap [B] words [G#] can [F#]
[B] be
And the letters I wrote you [F#] up Are those of the desperate [A] stuff
Begging for love in a suicide [C#] thread
[F#] But I'm too young to die Too [B] old for a [G#m] lullaby
Retired for life on the lay
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[F#] But I had a dream last night Of lovers who walked the plank
Out on the edge of time Amidst a [G#] thread of gold
[F#] They laughed as they rocked and reeled Over the mining fields
Coming [C#] to rest on [F#] this ship of [G#] fools
[F#] He just took [B] hold [F#] of her smile In [A] the light of the dawn
Of the menacing [C#] sky
[F#] And before they went overboard [B] She turned and held out her [G#m] card
And it said, Van _ [C#] [F#] Tine
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