Chords for The National Not in Kansas Paris

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[D] _ _ _ _ [G] _ I am not a cantus, [C] I can't slow down and I can't stand [G] it, broadcast losing to hallelujah
Hannah [D] Darbovin had a [G] great idea, make a list, write it down, [C] shave your head, draw [Em] a [G] crown
move back home with [C] mom and [D] dad, the pool is drained and they're [G] not there
my bedroom is a stranger's [C] gunner, Ohio's in a downward [G] spiral, can't go back there [D] anymore
since alt-right opium [G] went [C] viral, I [Am] am not a cantus, [G] where am I, don't [D] know where
[Gm] take [C] me for a [Am] walk, blame this [G] on me, the water [D]
drippin' off the ceiling
you _ [G] _ _
even get to wear a dress, [C] and feed his flesh to [G] wayward daughters, everyone is [C] so impressed
[D] teachers, neighbors, mothers, [G] fathers, the first testament was really great, [C] the sequel was incredible
[G] like the godfather of the first two [C] strokes, [D] every document's [G] indelible
_ infidels and heartbreak [C] pizza visions of bad [Em] ecstasy, [G] I must have left it in my [C] pocket
[D] with my Christianity and [G] my rock, I'm [Am] bitching hard on Annette [G] Bennett and listening [D] to R.E.M. [G] again
[C] begin the [Am] begin, over and [G] over, begin the [D] begin, [G] over and over
[C] I [Am] am not a cantus, [G] where am I, [D] don't know where
[C] take me for a [Am] walk and blame this [G] on me, the water [D] drippin' off the ceiling
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if [G] the sadness _ of life makes [C] you tired _ _ _
and [D] the failures of man make [G] you sad _ _ _
you can look to the time soon [C] arriving
_ _ when [D] the _ _ snowboarder's _ ceramic [Am] winds down and calls it [G] a day
my _ _ _ _ _ _ _ shadow's getting shorter, [C] I'm a child at the [G] border
oh godmother you can't ignore us, [D] there isn't anybody else [G] left to love us
I wanted you when I was a [C] child, I raked the leaves and I saw the [Em] fires
[G] now I'm reading whatever you [D] give me, it's half your fault so [G] half forgive me
way behind in the reflex [C] max, I phase it, sleepless [G] emotional crashes
two days into one, crushing together, [D] I always wake up waiting [G] for the weather
my mother needs an army [C] but leave it hung and I'm scared that [G] I won't have the balls to punch a Nazi
[D] father what is wrong [G] with me, [C]
I am [Am] not a cantus, [G] where I am, [D] I don't know [G] where
take [C] me for a [Am] walk and blame [G] this on me, the water [D] drippin' off the sphere
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_ _ [G] _ _ oil droppers, rubber [C] gloves, I rake the leaves, I [G] lit em up
I read whatever it [C] is you [D] give me, it's half your fault so half [G] forgive me
half the real Neil Armstrong [C] taught me to play, cutthroat at playing ends [G] of this house
when my real dead skate got caught [C] in the ice, [Bm] we drove [D] home with the spiral [G] fractured
it was then I wasn't lying, [C] the bird has flocked the whole way home
[G] I was entirely _ unfrightened, [D] dozed off in eternity, [G] I'm [C] alone
the [Am] flowers cover over [G] everything, they [D] cover [G] over [C] everything
the [Am] flowers cover [G] over everything
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[C] I am [Am] not a cantus, [G] where I am, I [D] don't know where
[G] take [C] me for a [Am] walk and blame this [G] on me, the water [D] drippin' off the sphere _ _
_ _ _ [Bm] time [G] has come now to stop [C] being human _
_ time to [D] find a new creature [G] to be _
be a fish or a weed [C] or a sparrow
_ for [D] the earth has no diamond [Am] and all of your diamonds _ [G] _
exiled
_ _ oh the _ gardens are [C] crowding with _ flowers
_ oh the [D] trees are _ suppressing _ [G] rivers _ _
and the people don't know that [C] it's over _ _ _
[D] they lay down their hairs and [Am] they had their _ _ _ [G] tiresome _ _ words _ _ _
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