Chords for Sufjan Stevens, "John My Beloved" (Official Audio)

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_ [Am] _ _ [Em] _ _ _
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_ [Am] Are we [Em] to speak?
[Bm] First day of the week.
[G] _ _ Stumbling words at [D] the bar. _ _ _
_ [Dm] Beauty, [G] blue eyes, [Bm] my order of fries.
_ [Em] Long Island [G] kindness [D] and wine. _ _ _
[F] _ Beloved [E] of John, [Bm] I get it all wrong.
[E] I read you [G] for some kind [D] of poem. _ _ _
_ [Am] _ Covered [Em] in lines, [Bm] the fossils I find.
_ [G] Have they no life of [D] their own? _ _ _
_ [G] So can we [Bm] _ pretend, _ [E] sweetly, [C] before [G] the mystery [D] ends?
_ [Gm] I am [C] a man with a heart [G] that offends with its lonely and greedy _ [D] demands.
_ _ _ [G] There's only [D] a shadow [G] of me, in [C] a matter [G] of speaking, [D] I'm dead. _ _ _
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_ [Dm] Such [G] a waste, [Bm] your beautiful face.
_ [Em] _ _ [G] Stumbling carpet [D] _ arise. _ _
[Am] Go follow [G] your jam, [Bm] your white feathered friend.
_ [G] _ Echor is poignant to [D] the sun. _ _ _
[Am] If history _ [Em] _
speaks [Bm] of two baby teeth,
[G] I'm painting the hills blue [D] and red. _ _
_ [Am] They said, [G] beware, _ [Bm] Lord hear my prayer.
[Em] I've wasted [G] my throes [D] on your head. _ _
_ [G] So can we [Bm] be friends, _ sweetly, [C] before [G] the _ [D] mystery ends?
_ I love [Gm] you more than the world can [G] contain in its lonely and _ [D] ramshackle head.
_ _ _ [G] There's only [D] a shadow [G] of me, in [C] a matter [G] of speaking, [D] I'm dead. _ _
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[Bm] I'm _ _ _ _
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_ [Am] holding [G] my breath, [Bm] my tongue on your chest.
[Em] What can be [G] said [D] of my heart? _ _
_ [Dm] If history _ [G] _
speaks, [Bm] the kiss on my cheek.
[Em] _ Where [G] there remains [D] but a mark. _ _
_ [Am] _ Beloved [G] my jam, [Bm] so I'll carry on.
[Em] _ _ [G] Counting my cards [D] down to one. _ _ _
_ [C] And when [Em] I am dead, [Bm] come visit my bed.
[Em] My fossil [G] is bright [D] in the sun. _ _ _
_ [Em] _ So can we [Bm] _ contend, _ [G] peacefully, _ before my history [D] ends? _
Jesus, I need you be [G] near me.
Come shield me from [C]
[G] fossils that fall on [D] my head.
_ _ _ [G] There's only [D] a shadow [G] of me, in a matter of speaking, [D] I'm dead. _ _ _
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