We Carry The Feeling

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Search through the sky for a sign 
               D
or a simple suggestion
  A                                
I waited all night, but I was fast 
                            D
asleep when it knocked upon my door
        F#m                        
It gets lonely here when it's just 
          E
me and my questions
D                    Dm
Jetsam in the Ether, pulsars pole 
not drawing anymore


[Interlude]
A E F#m E (x2)


[Verse 1]

A                  E     F#m
I remember it like yesterday
D                     A          
Thought that you were lovely, I 
    F#m                 E
just didn't know what to say
A                                
There's all these protocols that 
E          F#m E
get in the way
A                      E    F#m
We were on the edge of seventeen
D              A                  
All we knew to say were things we 
F#m    E
didn't mean
A                          E      
'Til impressed you with my wit, it
 F#m    E
 seemed
             D                     
I learned so much from magazines 
      A
and television
          D                        
About how men relate through rules 
             A
to tell them how
D                             A
Oh, I saw the signals with precision
F#m
The moments when our habits faltered
E
Omens of desires unhaltered


[Interlude]
A E F#m E (x2)


[Verse 2]

A                           E    
It wasn't long 'til we were 
   F#m
sharing beds
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               D               
With different dressings on the 
 A                F#m    E
dreams appearing in our heads
A                       E    
I wanted a lover, you a brother 
     F#m   E
instead
A                           E    
Either way, these things were 
     F#m
hard to name
D          A                 F#m
Me, always wondering, did we 
      E
feel the same?
    A                          E  
And after a while, all I could 
      F#m  E
feel was shame
D                           
Stef said I shouldn't see you 
  A
anymore
D                                 
Clyde, they tried to call me on 
  A
the phone to say
     D                             
Some love's are labors lost, oh, 
  A
but I'm never sure
        F#m
There's nothing they could tell me 
about
E
Made me really want to be alone


[Chorus]

D            A
And I felt a funny face
      F#m                      
Was a worthless waste, caught a 
 E
hopeless case
D                 A
For sweet boys on sweaty days
           F#m                 E
Don't know what we crave, it remains
 unspoken
D              A
The longing outlived the place
      F#m                 E       
Our artistic taste, it outlived 
             D
the clothes we wore
D             A
When I feel uncertain now
    F#m           E
I remember how we carry the feeling


[Interlude]
A E F#m E (x2)


[Verse 3]

A                          E     
Those were stories that we saved 
    F#m
for dark
D        A                  F#m  
Lost the plot before they'd even 
E
start
       A                           
Except once when we were drunk and 
         E         F#m  E
then you kissed me hard
A                     E       F#m
And so, I fade into a distant star
       D              A     
In the brightest company, but 
       F#m        E
everything's so far
         A                         
Thinking lifetimes pass us, 
              E            F#m E
gaseous, things just stay as they 
are
  D                      
I tried to chalk it up to 
      A
expectation
     D                           
Or believe that what I wanted was 
      A
just wrong
          D                
But now I better understand 
       A
assimilation
         F#m
I closed ranks among the ones who 
felt I
E
Only part belonged among them


[Chorus]

D            A
And I felt a funny face
      F#m                      
Was a worthless waste, caught a 
 E
hopeless case
D                 A
For sweet boys on sweaty days
           F#m                 E
Don't know what we crave, it remains
 unspoken
D              A
The longing outlived the place
      F#m                 E       
Our artistic taste, it outlived 
             D
the clothes we wore
D             A
When I feel uncertain now
    F#m           E
I remember how we carry the feeling