Not The Night Wind

E  A  E

[Verse 1]
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Morning breeze comes blowing in as 
  A                 E
pressure starts to fade
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Me I wake up early now, I know 
       B
it's a cliche
               C#m           E    
Oh but you'll never find 
         A             Am
me sleeping at the end of any day
              E              B    
It's far too much to find my 
      A
primed imagination
    E                B      
It wonders through the  night 
             C#m         A
despite my petty protestation
            E                
But you'll never know I won't 
               A                E
disclose the worried state I'm in
 E                             
I do so value my composure it's 
     A                  B
unclear where to begin
              C#m             
Between the headlines read and 
    E             A            
endless dread or anxious moments 
    Am
when
          E                 B     
I just interpret with the best 
         A
faith that I can
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But uncertainty unwelcome always 
   C#m               A         
comes to foil my carefulest laid 
   E       A  E
plans

[Chorus]
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There are things we didn't ever used
E
 to talk about
       A              Am          
The excitement in the evening just
    E
 before the stars came out
          A               Am      
Like the rustling in the shadows 
        E
in the park
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             A               Am   
Like how we wandered off alone to 
            E
find what we feel in the dark
             A               Am   
Like how it doesn't just get easy 
         E        A   E
'cause you start

[Verse 2]
           E                       
With your head laid on the shoulder
          A               E
 of some boy you barely knew
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Your unsleeping mind meandered 
               A              
through the things you did and 
   B
didn't do
    C#m                E       
And certain in the morning you'd 
       A           Am
remember it was true
            E               B     
And on the wings of it you flew 
        A
into the next town
         E                  B     
For the next few days you smiled 
               C#m             A
and said you're glad you came around
             E                  
Oh but the blowback's never easy 
              A                E
when you're not sure what it means
     E                        A   
The flipside of euphoria is still 
              B
this mess it seems
              C#m             
And when you found a path less 
   E                   A          
traveled doubt just climbed inside
        Am
 your dream
                E              
There's always something saying 
         B
you're not obeying
      C#m               A         
Some central laid out principles 
   E     A    E
of being

[Bridge]
        F#m                     
I wanna say we are a people ever 
 A                 E
aching from self doubt
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Not that it's so unique, it's just 
    A                B
a thing to think about
            C#m           E       
I mean our parents model virtues 
       A                Am
of the workplace of the house
              E                  B
But not the night wind, not the 
                C#m       A       
road and not the family we find 
        E
out in the cold
           B              C#m     
Not to be tender-hearted sending 
        A                E     A   E
art via youthfulness when old

[Verse 3]
         E                         
And you wondered what it meant to 
   A             E
be politically queer
             E                     
So when I'm lost within my longing 
       A          B
is it politics I hear?
           C#m               E    
Oh but the way you felt so strong 
           A                Am
among the ones you held so dear
           E                    B 
It wasn't home, it's someplace 
               A
that you could believe in
 E                   B          
Now the rents are rising and your 
   C#m                  A
closest friends are leaving

[Chorus]
         A                  Am    
Oh but there are things we didn't 
     E
ever used to talk about
           A           Am         
Like how pretenses at purity just 
  E
drenched us in self doubt
         A            Am          
Like how we arrive imperfect as we
  E
 are
              A                  
Like how the night wind felt more 
   Am             E
changeable than cold and distant 
stars
          A                Am     
Like how sometimes it just all 
             E
still seems so far