My Sister Chords by Tindersticks

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[E] _ _ _ You [A] remember my sister? _
[D] _ _ How many mistakes did she make but it was never [E] blinking eyes?
_ _ _ I couldn't work it out.
[D] _ _ _ I'd swear she could read your [E] mind, your life, the depths of your soul at one glance. _
[A] _ Maybe she was stripping herself away, [Bm] _
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Here I am, this is me, I am yours and [E] everything about me, everything you see. _
You certainly [D] look hard enough. _ _ _ _
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[E] _ Our life was a pillow fight. _ _
[D] You'd stand there on the quilt, her hands clenched ready. _
[E] _ Her with her milky teeth so laid for age, her [D] standing eye for her hand. _ _ _ _ _
[E] _ She slashed the ties on my bike and I couldn't forgive her.
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[D] _ She went blind at the age of five. _ _
[E] I'd stand at the bedroom window and she'd get me to tell her what I saw.
[Bm] _ _ [D] I'd describe the house as opposite.
[E] The little patch of grass next to the path.
The gate [Bm] with its rotten hinges, forever [D] wedged open, that that was also.
[E] _ _ _ _ _ She'd stand there quiet for a [D] moment.
_ _ I thought she was trying to develop [E] the images in her own head.
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[F#] _ _ _ I can see little twinkly stars, [B] like Christmas tree lights and faraway windows.
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Rings of brightly coloured rocks floating around orange and mustard planets.
I can see [D] huge tiger-striped fishes chasing tiny blue and yellow [F] dashes.
Old tails and fins and bubbles.
I'd [E] look at the great house and_
_ _ I went down the house and [D] I _ was awake, cramping in the [A#] skirt.
[B] I remember the time I said you'd [E] been smoking me back. _
[D] The old story I told.
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[E] _ I fell down the road. _ _
[F#m] I got to get in bed with our aunt in the evening. _ _ _
We went back to London to find a [D] new house.
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[E] We never saw him again. _ _ _ _
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[B] _ _ _ [E] On a certain Thursday, he fell down [A] the well in our old yard. _ _ _ _ _
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[D] On a recovery assignment we came to.
The school was in a [E] dreadful state.
The next day she said she'd never meet him [D] again. _ _ _ _ _ _
[E] I would tell her when she stood in the garage, wired and warm. _
[F#m] But the reminder in me of the well she fell into. _
[D] She liked this.
She never left. _
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[D] He _ _ _ _ _ [E]
had a girl with a [B] twin, she was fifteen.
Almost [E] thirty-one.
He lost his job when his [B] soul came out and couldn't get another one.
_ Nothing that kind of smoke there.
_ Everybody [G] and everyone else was pissed. _ _
My sister would hold her head high though.
_ [E] She said she didn't know.
_ _ They were together for five years until one day he lost his temper.
He drove her back to the hospital.
_ _ _ She lost the easter [D] eye side of her body.
He'd had three years and was out for [E] fifteen months.
_ _ He swung by us.
[D] _ Scratching on to a protein of a common season.
[E] _ _ I don't think he recognized. _ _
[F#m] My sister would put him a lot of weight in being in the chair all the [D] time.
_ He'd say he was a big dandy.
[E] I said I liked him.
_ He laughed like mad as a big [D] dad.
_ _ _ The [A] last time they were [E] together,
_ they'd have all their emails just about [D] everything's going on in the school.
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[E] _ _ He buried him when she was thirty-two. _
[D] _ _ He admired the vicar and the man [E] that they loved.
_ _ He said she'd be [D] particularly amazing.
He wanted a chief constable. _ _
[E] _ _ _ He said she liked the idea.
[F#m] _ _ Though I thought [D] it was because of what happened [Bm] to Kat and her mother.
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