The Trees

INTRO - F#

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I took an air-rifle, shot a magpie 
to the ground
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And it died without a sound
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Your skin so pale against the fallen
 autumn leaves
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And no one saw us but the trees

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Yeah the trees, those useless trees
            B             F#
Produce the air that I am breathing
         F#
Yeah the trees, those useless trees
           B                 
They never said that you were 
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leaving

F#
I carved your name with a heart just
 up above
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No swollen, distorted, 
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unrecognisable; like our love
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F#
The smell of leaf mould and the 
sweetness of decay
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Are the incense at the funeral 
     F#
procession here, today

F#
In the trees, those useless trees
            B             F#
Produce the air that I am breathing
         F#
Yeah the trees, those useless trees
           B                 
They never said that you were 
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leaving

B
You try to shape the world to what 
you want the world to be
Carving your name a thousand won't 
bring you back to me
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Oh no I might as well

I might as well just go tell it to 
the trees
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            F#
Oh yeah the trees, those useless 
trees
            B             F#
Produce the air that I am breathing
         F#
Yeah the trees, those useless trees
           B                 
They never said that you were 
 F#
leaving

F#
Go and tell it to the trees yeah
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Go and tell it to the trees yeah
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Go and tell it to the trees yeah
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Go and tell it to the trees yeah