Esther

        C                       
In the middle of a mission I met 
   Am
Esther in the kitchen
G                                 
Drinking something blue it looked 
     Am
like Windex
C
She could shake but couldn't really 
sing, Sharpened like a feral thing
G                                 
Helped me with my part when I lost
  Am
 interest

    E                              
She said her name was Esther I said
  F
 baby that sounds biblical
       C                           
Ain't she the one that came up 
  G
after Vashti?
C
Yeah and then some other stuff
    Am
At some point there I fell in love
G                                 
Then she heard a song she liked 
  Am
and lost me

[Chorus]

    C                       Am
The party ended suddenly, suddenly 
it's over
      F
That left me an Esther all alone and
 getting older
     C                       Am
All alone and getting older smoking 
in the street
     F
Now everything is Esther and it's 
been that way all week

C Am G Am  C    G Am

[Verse 2]

C                              
The times that we were powerless 
        Am
were times that I remember best
      G                            
When it first came on it felt just 
      Am
like a blanket
C
Once we had a little bit we pretty 
much just wasted it
G                                 
Traded in our tickets for drinks 
          Am
and little trinkets

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    E                              
The scene back in the city was the 
  F
opposite of freedom
C                                 
We were always so damn broke it 
        G
was this whole dependent fallacy
C                            Am
They started shooting so the songs 
of the future
G                             Am
Esther always wants it how it used 
to be

[Chorus]

C                                 
Songs all ran together and the 
         Am
kids ran outta liquor
F
That's when me and Esther started 
staring at each other
          C                  
Started staring at each other 
  Am
feeling pretty sweet
     F
Now everything is Esther it's been 
that way all week
     C                        
The parties fall to pieces the 
  Am
endings are so heavy
F
Feels like no one's watching when 
we're this deep in the valley
            C                      
When we're this deep in the valley 
        Am
you can see so many stars
     F
When Esther told her story we were 
sitting in the car

[Bridge]

Am                             
   She said her folks were never 
   F
close
                        C
They had me 'cause they had to
                G
No one named me Esther
                      F
That came up a little later
                 C
It was after some detective
                           G
Came around here with some questions
                Em
I went out to Colorado
                  F
Was mostly in the motels
                      C
Started living pretty reckless
                       G
Started calling myself Esther
I just felt like someone different
Em      E


[Instrumental]
C   Am   F x2

[Chorus]

C                               
Felt like someone different and I 
   Am
never could forgive
        F
All the movies in our heads about 
the lives we wanna live
     C                          Am
The lives we wanna live are all free
 of pain and fear
    F
Now Esther's getting cigarettes and 
me I'm buying beer


C                           Am
Felt like someone different felt 
like someone else
    F
She almost died in Denver, she did 
it to herself
    C                       Am
She did it herself, there's only her
 to blame
   F
Of course I call her Esther I don't 
know her other name

      C                    Am
She's never going home her folks 
were never close
   F
We mostly watch the TV crack the 
windows when we smoke
    C                   Am
Her aura is amazing her room is kind
 of bleak
      F
I met Esther at a party got together
 for a week