Carissa Chords by Sun Kil Moon

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_ [Gm] _ [Bb] Oh, Chris, when I [Gm] first saw you, [Bb] you were a lovely child.
[Eb] And the last [Bb] time I saw you, you were [Cm] fifteen, [Bb] pregnant, and running wild.
_ [Gm] I [Bb] remember wondering, could there be a [Cm] light at the [Bb] end of your tunnel?
_ [Eb] But I left [Bb] Ohio then, [Cm] and pretty much [Bb] forgotten all about you.
[Gm] I [Bb] guess you were there some years ago at a family funeral.
_ But you were one of so many relatives, [Cm] I didn't [Bb] know which one was you.
_ [Gm] _ [Bb] Yesterday morning I woke [Cm] up to so many [Bb] 330 area code [Eb] calls.
I [Bb] called my mom back and she was [Cm] in tears and [Bb] asked how to spoke to my father.
[Gm] _ [Bb] Carissa burned to death last night in a freak accident fire.
[Eb] In her yard [Bb] and rooster, her [Cm] daughter came home from a [Bb] party and found her.
_ [Cm] Same [Bb] way as my uncle, _ [Cm] who [Bb] was her grandfather.
_ [Eb] _ [Bb] An aerosol can blew up in the [Cm] trash, god [Bb] damn, what were the [Gm] odds?
[Cm] She was [Bb] just getting ready to go to [Gm] her midnight [Bb] shift as an RN in Wadsworth.
[Eb] And she [Bb] vanished up in flames [Gm] like that, but there [Bb] had to be more to her.
[Gm] _ _ [Bb] Everyone's grieving and out of [Cm] their minds, [Bb] making arrangements and taking [Eb] drugs.
But I'm [Bb] flying out there tomorrow because [Gm] I need to [Bb] give and get some hugs.
[Gm] Cause I got questions _ [Cm] that I'd [Bb] like to get answered.
_ [Eb] I [Bb] may never get them, but [Cm] Carissa, I [Bb] gotta know how did it happen?
[Eb] _ [Gm] Carissa was 35, [Bb] you know just raise two kids and take out [Eb] your trash and die. _ _
_ She [Gm] was my second [Bb] cousin, I didn't know her well at all, but it don't mean that I [Eb] was. _ _ _
_ _ [Gm] Meant to find some poetry to make [Bb] some sense of this, to [Eb] find a deeper meaning. _ _
In the [Gm] senseless tragedy, [Bb] oh Carissa, I'll sing her name across [Eb] every sea.
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[Cm] Were you [Bb] doing someone _ [Gm] _
_ [Bb] else's chores for them?
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Were you [Bb] just killing time, finding [Cm] things to do [Bb] all by your lonesome?
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Was it [Bb] even you who [Cm] mistakenly put [Bb] flammables in the trash?
Was it your kids just being kids?
Is this [Cm] all the [Bb] guilt they will carry around [Gm] forever?
Well [Bb] I'm going out there [Gm] to get a [Bb] look at the landscapes.
[Eb] To get a [Bb] look at those I'm connected [Cm] by blood and [Bb] see how it all may have shaped me.
[Gm]
Well [Bb] I'm going out there, _ [Cm]
though I'm [Bb] not really needed.
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I'm [Bb] just so broken up about it, [Cm] how is it that this [Bb] sad history repeats?
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I'll [Bb] return to Ohio, _ _ to the place I was spawned.
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Gonna see [Bb] where I'm with my [Cm] cousins and play with them [Bb] in the snow.
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Gonna see [Bb] how they've grown, visits and graves and say hey I've missed you.
[Eb] Gonna find [Bb] out as much as I can about [Cm] my little [Bb] second cousin _ Carissa.
Gonna go to Ohio, _ [Gm] _
where [Bb] I was born.
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Got a 10 [Bb] to 45 am [Cm] flight, I'm leaving tomorrow [Bb] morning.
_ _ [Cm] Gonna see [Bb] my aunts and [Cm] uncles, my [Bb] parents and ancestors.
[Eb] Mostly [Bb] I'm going to pay my respects [Cm] to my little [Bb] second cousin _ Carissa.
Going to Ohio, where I feel I belong.
[Eb] To ask those who [Bb] know the most about Carissa, [Cm] for it is through [Bb] life and death that I'm [Eb] helplessly drawn.
[Gm] Carissa was 35, [Bb] raised kids, and she was 15 years old and [Eb] suddenly died.
_ _ Next to an old [Gm] brick fire [Bb] pit, oh there's gotta be more than that, dude.
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_ _ _ _ She was only [Gm] my second cousin, [Bb] but it don't mean that I'm not here for her, [Eb] that I wasn't. _ _ _ _
[Bb] Meant to give her life poetry, to make sure her name was known [Eb] across every sea.
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