Abigail

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Abigail, the shore is frozen,
G                                 
Our tar trails have been 
  F#m
bulldozin' down
Bm
Your sharpened frown,
E           A  A/G
Once had me possessed

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D  Cadd9


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D  Cadd9  G (walkdown into verse)

[Verse]
D
Do you recall the crippled summer?,

     G
Your fam'ly all was in deep slumber
F#m           Bm
And oh how I loved their ways
     E                   A  A/G
When Leland's haze still lingered

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On my shadow

D  Cadd9

[Verse]
D
Your brother he didn't have to die,
     G
Your mother she didn't have to cry
     F#m                Bm
Your father didn't have to ask why
E                  A  A/G
summer was on your chest

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As your eyes glow

D  Cadd9

[Verse]
D
All our drugstore lawns blew cool so
 fast,
    G
The mill was never built to last
    F#m                 Bm
The tort'rous thrill of sweating 
grass
   E                A  A/G
Is this town's only sorrowed

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Trampled blanket

D  Cadd9

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[Verse]
    D
And if I was branded to your foyer
        G
Through passing carpenters and 
lawyers
  F#m         Bm
Agrarians and God's own soldiers
E             A  A/G
I would never make it

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[Bridge]
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Do you still dream of dangerous 
hotels
F#m                   Bm
Wrapped in glares and daffodil 
smells
G                  Bm        Bb  A
With your barefeet buried in weeds?

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I still dream of snarled backyards
    F#m                  Bm
And being chased through nighttime's
 discards
G              Bm                 
Where my fence reddens, rusts, and
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 bleeds

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And the curbs are haunted by the 
killers
   F#m         Bm
Of memories of your back pillars
G             Bm           Bb  A
Where nothing wakens as it seems

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All our rooms are hopeful mornings
F#m                 Bm
Left like tombs when nights are 
swarming
G             Bm            
And branching feathers fan our 
   Bb  A
dreams

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And your star was the saddest symbol
F#m                 Bm
Flickered with your mother's thimble
G           A
Pitiful and sunsoaked soggy
F#m         Bm
Beautiful inside the muggy
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Ashamed of our bodies in the stream

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[Verse]
D
Ah but spring's dumbed voice is just
 like yours
       G
And if I had a choice I'd do my 
chores
F#m          Bm
And my work would dumbfound
    E                  A  A/G
The restlessness found in you

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D  Cadd9
[Verse]
   D
And no one else could understand the
 truth
       G
Of the soil burning back to youth
F#m                  Bm
It's just something that we found
    E                     A     A/G
But now it all thaws damp around you

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D  Cadd9

[Verse]
        D
And the streets are dry and bare, 
but they're humming
    G                           
The rooftops where the air stops 
        F#m
coming down
          Bm
To listen for the sound
       E              A   A/G
Of the tests that surround you

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Abigail

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D
I said, "Abigal the shore is 
frozen!"
G                         
Our tar trails, they're all 
            F#m
bulldozen now
    Bm                   E
Your bygone sounds are cidada-bound,
           A  A/G       
They're so shrilling, and 
   [Riff 1]          D  Cadd9
night-smoke tarry,
           A     A/G    [Riff 
You should spill them into the 
1]         D  Cadd9
starry,
          A   A/G       [Riff 1]
They are children, and no one's 
        D
sorry.

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