Not Abel

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[Verse 1]
    G#m              C#m
The whole town lined up outside the 
tent
F#                           E
What those kids thought they saw-
                     A
Do you really want to remember this?
  G#m           C#m           F# 
Today, think of all the alien 
               E
shots in the dark
That at one time, all at once, 
A
coexisted

F#m                           D
   I mean aside from all the burning
F#m                               
   Hurry by the shanties beside 
  D
the road

            A
Sunset on a cart
      E              F#
Pulled home by a white horse
                  A          
Conscience of the husband was 
 E             F#
righteous and coarse
                C#m
There must be a limit
           F#m
If we only circle around
                    B
There's no hurry in reaching it


[Interlude]
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[Verse 2]
G#m
Shirt bloodstained
    C#m                 F#        
And yet it was not Abel but Cain 
          E
who got to hear
The voice that for so long had been 
 A
a stranger
G#m             C#m              
Not one word of all the time they
       F#
 spent growing up brothers
E                               A
Even love, yes, even love, yes, even
 love

Something to lose

F#m                                
    What if the details there were 
D
suddenly shared?
F#m                              
    Tender moments siblings keep 
D
secret

            A            E        
Sunset on a time when no words 
      F#
could be spared
         A                 E       
Unknowing mother rocks soft in her 
F#
chair
                C#m
There must be a limit
         F#m
This has happened, this will happen
        B
This is happening


[Bridge]
D            A     E
Voice on the radio again
D               A           
  Strange to be shaped by such 
   E
strange men
          D      A      E
It's the hottest summer again
D             A              E
Strange to be shaped by such strange
 men
E*                            N.C.
But where will you go? Where?


[Break]
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[Verse 3]
A
Where, where?
E                      F#         
When you asked me that question it
 A              E
 sounded like a joke
         F#
A rubber hand extended to shake
C#m                             
Outside my kitchen the sound of 
F#m
fists on the door
             B
In the early morning light
  A        E              F#
A death so small and sentimental
      A                 E         
Daddy giving the middle finger to 
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the Kodak lens
               C#m
When I saw her face she smiled
              F#m               
"I don't know why I saved it all 
      B
this time"


[Otro]
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(Repeat then fade out)