A Perfect Sonnet Chords by Bright Eyes
Tempo:
125.45 bpm
Chords used:
C
Em
Am
F
D
Tuning:Standard Tuning (EADGBE)Capo:+0fret
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[C] .
Maybe I've been wishing I had one [Em] desire.
Something that would make me never want [Am] another.
Something that would make it so that nothing [Dm] mattered.
All would be clear then.
[C] But I guess I'll have to settle for a few brief [Em] moments.
And watch it all dissolve into a single [F] second.
And try to write it down into a perfect song.
[D] Or one foolish line.
[F] Cause that's all [G] that's okay.
So [Am].
you'll have [D] to accept.
[F] You are here, [G] then you're gone.
[C] But I believe that love should be tied together.
[Em].
Wrote in CEOs changing the [Am] world.
Left there to drown, left there to drown.
[D] In their innocence.
Left [C] for me, I'm coming to the photo [Em] chapter.
I read all of the pages and there's still no [Am] answer.
The only words before I know, but soon from after.
[D] That's the only way it can be.
So [F] I stand [G] in the sun.
And [Am] I [Dm] breathe with [D] my lungs.
Of [F] trying to spare [G] me the weight [F] of the truth.
[C].
Saying everything you've ever seen was just a mirror.
[Em] Spent your whole life sweating in an endless [F] fever.
Laying in a bathtub full of freezing [D] water.
Wishing you were a ghost.
[C].
But when she knew a girl and you named her lover.
[Em] You danced with her in kitchens through the greenest [F] summer.
Autumn came, she disappeared, you can't [Dm] remember.
She [D] said she was going to.
[Dm] But you [F] know that [G] she's gone.
Cause [Am] she left [Dm] you [D] a song .
That [F] you don't want [G] to sing.
[C] Singing how a lover should be tied together.
[Em] Turned into a fire with the scars there.
[Am] Left there to burn, left there to burn.
In [Dm] their arrogance.
[D] .
[C] That friendly occurrence .
[Em] Of myself would change this time.
I'll make things [Am] better.
And it'll become something other [Dm] than what I had planned to be.
[C].
I [Em] .
[Am] .
[Dm] [Bb] .
[D] [C] believe that lovers should be draped in [Em] flowers.
And laid in twine together on a bed of [Am] clover.
Left there to sleep, left there to dream [E] of their happiness.
[Fm] [Em] [C] .
Maybe I've been wishing I had one [Em] desire.
Something that would make me never want [Am] another.
Something that would make it so that nothing [Dm] mattered.
All would be clear then.
[C] But I guess I'll have to settle for a few brief [Em] moments.
And watch it all dissolve into a single [F] second.
And try to write it down into a perfect song.
[D] Or one foolish line.
[F] Cause that's all [G] that's okay.
So [Am].
you'll have [D] to accept.
[F] You are here, [G] then you're gone.
[C] But I believe that love should be tied together.
[Em].
Wrote in CEOs changing the [Am] world.
Left there to drown, left there to drown.
[D] In their innocence.
Left [C] for me, I'm coming to the photo [Em] chapter.
I read all of the pages and there's still no [Am] answer.
The only words before I know, but soon from after.
[D] That's the only way it can be.
So [F] I stand [G] in the sun.
And [Am] I [Dm] breathe with [D] my lungs.
Of [F] trying to spare [G] me the weight [F] of the truth.
[C].
Saying everything you've ever seen was just a mirror.
[Em] Spent your whole life sweating in an endless [F] fever.
Laying in a bathtub full of freezing [D] water.
Wishing you were a ghost.
[C].
But when she knew a girl and you named her lover.
[Em] You danced with her in kitchens through the greenest [F] summer.
Autumn came, she disappeared, you can't [Dm] remember.
She [D] said she was going to.
[Dm] But you [F] know that [G] she's gone.
Cause [Am] she left [Dm] you [D] a song .
That [F] you don't want [G] to sing.
[C] Singing how a lover should be tied together.
[Em] Turned into a fire with the scars there.
[Am] Left there to burn, left there to burn.
In [Dm] their arrogance.
[D] .
[C] That friendly occurrence .
[Em] Of myself would change this time.
I'll make things [Am] better.
And it'll become something other [Dm] than what I had planned to be.
[C].
I [Em] .
[Am] .
[Dm] [Bb] .
[D] [C] believe that lovers should be draped in [Em] flowers.
And laid in twine together on a bed of [Am] clover.
Left there to sleep, left there to dream [E] of their happiness.
[Fm] [Em] [C] .
Key:
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Em
Am
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D
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[C] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ .
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ .
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ .
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ .
Maybe I've been wishing I had one [Em] desire.
Something that would make me never want [Am] another.
Something that would make it so that nothing [Dm] mattered.
All would be clear then.
_ [C] But I guess I'll have to settle for a few brief [Em] moments.
And watch it all dissolve into a single [F] second.
And try to write it down into a perfect song.
[D] Or one foolish line.
_ [F] Cause that's all [G] that's okay.
So [Am].
you'll have [D] to accept.
_ [F] You are here, [G] then you're gone.
[C] But I believe that love should be tied together.
[Em].
Wrote in CEOs changing the _ [Am] world.
Left there to drown, left there to drown.
[D] In their innocence.
_ Left [C] _ for me, I'm coming to the photo [Em] chapter.
I read all of the pages and there's still no [Am] answer.
The only words before I know, but soon from after.
[D] That's the only way it can be.
So [F] I stand [G] in the sun.
And [Am] I [Dm] breathe with [D] my _ _ lungs.
Of [F] trying to spare [G] me the weight [F] of the _ truth.
_ _ _ [C].
Saying everything you've ever seen was just a mirror.
[Em] Spent your whole life sweating in an endless [F] fever.
Laying in a bathtub full of freezing [D] water.
Wishing you were a ghost.
_ [C].
But when she knew a girl and you named her lover.
[Em] You danced with her in kitchens through the greenest [F] summer.
Autumn came, she disappeared, you can't [Dm] remember.
She [D] said she was going to.
[Dm] But you [F] know that [G] she's gone.
Cause [Am] she left [Dm] you [D] a song _ .
_ That [F] you don't want [G] to sing.
[C] Singing how a lover should be tied together.
[Em] Turned into a fire with the scars there.
[Am] _ Left there to burn, left there to burn.
In [Dm] their arrogance.
_ _ [D] _ .
[C] That friendly occurrence _ _ _ .
[Em] Of myself would change this time.
I'll make things [Am] better.
And it'll become something other [Dm] than what I had planned to _ be.
[C].
I _ _ _ _ _ _ [Em] _ .
_ _ _ _ _ [Am] _ _ _ .
_ _ _ _ _ [Dm] _ _ [Bb] _ .
_ _ [D] _ _ _ [C] believe that lovers should be draped in [Em] flowers.
And laid in twine together on a bed of [Am] clover.
Left there to sleep, left there to dream [E] of their happiness.
_ _ _ _ _ [Fm] _ _ _ [Em] _ [C] _ _ _ _ _ _ .
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ .
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ .
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ .
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ .
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ .
Maybe I've been wishing I had one [Em] desire.
Something that would make me never want [Am] another.
Something that would make it so that nothing [Dm] mattered.
All would be clear then.
_ [C] But I guess I'll have to settle for a few brief [Em] moments.
And watch it all dissolve into a single [F] second.
And try to write it down into a perfect song.
[D] Or one foolish line.
_ [F] Cause that's all [G] that's okay.
So [Am].
you'll have [D] to accept.
_ [F] You are here, [G] then you're gone.
[C] But I believe that love should be tied together.
[Em].
Wrote in CEOs changing the _ [Am] world.
Left there to drown, left there to drown.
[D] In their innocence.
_ Left [C] _ for me, I'm coming to the photo [Em] chapter.
I read all of the pages and there's still no [Am] answer.
The only words before I know, but soon from after.
[D] That's the only way it can be.
So [F] I stand [G] in the sun.
And [Am] I [Dm] breathe with [D] my _ _ lungs.
Of [F] trying to spare [G] me the weight [F] of the _ truth.
_ _ _ [C].
Saying everything you've ever seen was just a mirror.
[Em] Spent your whole life sweating in an endless [F] fever.
Laying in a bathtub full of freezing [D] water.
Wishing you were a ghost.
_ [C].
But when she knew a girl and you named her lover.
[Em] You danced with her in kitchens through the greenest [F] summer.
Autumn came, she disappeared, you can't [Dm] remember.
She [D] said she was going to.
[Dm] But you [F] know that [G] she's gone.
Cause [Am] she left [Dm] you [D] a song _ .
_ That [F] you don't want [G] to sing.
[C] Singing how a lover should be tied together.
[Em] Turned into a fire with the scars there.
[Am] _ Left there to burn, left there to burn.
In [Dm] their arrogance.
_ _ [D] _ .
[C] That friendly occurrence _ _ _ .
[Em] Of myself would change this time.
I'll make things [Am] better.
And it'll become something other [Dm] than what I had planned to _ be.
[C].
I _ _ _ _ _ _ [Em] _ .
_ _ _ _ _ [Am] _ _ _ .
_ _ _ _ _ [Dm] _ _ [Bb] _ .
_ _ [D] _ _ _ [C] believe that lovers should be draped in [Em] flowers.
And laid in twine together on a bed of [Am] clover.
Left there to sleep, left there to dream [E] of their happiness.
_ _ _ _ _ [Fm] _ _ _ [Em] _ [C] _ _ _ _ _ _ .
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ .
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ .
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