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Bb                  Dm
I know a girl with cuts on her legs
A                   Bb
I think that she hates the way she was made
A                   Bb
But we never spoke of why they were there
Dm                         Bb
I just squeezed them and kissed them
          F           C
Until we both felt a bit better

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Bb                            Dm
And now I've returned to the town where she dwells
A                             Bb
That small lonely cabin her grandfather built
A                             Bb
Suppose that's where she's imprisoned herself
Dm                  Bb               F        C
To write all those words she's too scared to tell
Dm                  Bb         F          C
Those sad, short stories of a girl curled up in her shell

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Dm         A        Bb         F
Night and day she tends to her bar
Bb              F              C            F
She pours the drinks, they pour out their hearts
Dm         A        Bb   F
All that sorrow and alcohol 
Bb                    F
weighs hard on her thoughts
        Bbm
So she writes them down, she loves them all

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Bb                            Dm
And when we'd make love, she'd stare in my eyes
A                       Bb
I swore we had met a thousand times
A                       Bb
Thousands of lives, thousands of nights
Dm               Bb     F        C
She's written of it a thousand lines

Dm         A        Bb         F
Night and day she tends to her bar
Bb              F              C      F
She pours me a drink for my parched heart
Dm        A        Bb   F
All my sorrows in alcohol
Bb                F          Bbm
She holds up the cup to my cracked lips, for a kiss

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