Letter to Elise

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Oh elise it doesn't matter what you
  E
 say
I just can't stay here every 
F#m
yesterday
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Like keep on acting out the same

The way we act out
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Every way to smile

Forget
    E
And make-believe we never needed
F#m
Any more than this
D
Any more than this

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Oh elise it doesn't matter what you
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 do
                         F#m
I know i'll never really get inside 
of you
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To make your eyes catch fire

The way they should
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The way the blue could pull me in
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If they only would

If they only would
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At least I'd lose this sense of 
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sensing something else

That hides away
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From me and you

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There're worlds to part
     E
With aching looks and breaking 
hearts
    F#m
And all the prayers your hands can 
make
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Oh I just take as much as you can 
throw
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And then I throw it all away
E
Oh I throw it all away
F#m
Like throwing faces at the sky
     D
Like throwing arms around
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Yesterday

I stood and stared
     F#m
Wide-eyed in front of you
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And the face I saw looked back
          F#m
The way I wanted to
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But I just can't hold my tears away
    F#m
The way you do

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Elise believe I never wanted this
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I thought this time I'd keep all of
     F#m
 my promises
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I thought you were the girl always 
F#m
dreamed about
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But I let the dream go
        Fm
And the promises broke
                         E
And the make-believe ran out

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So elise
                           E
It doesn't matter what you say
I just can't stay here every 
F#m
yesterday
                    D
Like keep on acting out the same

The way we act out
A
Every way to smile

Forget
    E
And make-believe we never needed
F#m
Any more than this
D
Any more than this

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And every time I try to pick it up

Like falling sand
F#m
As fast as I pick it up
         D
It runs away through my clutching 
hands
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And there's nothing else I can 
really do
E
There's nothing else I can really do
F#m
There's nothing else I can really do
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At all