Track 7 on Bright Eyes' final album, The People's Key due out Feb. 15th.
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E A C#m B
I loved a Triple Spiral, my maiden-mother-crone
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I folded my devotion into an origami rose
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Stood at her Tiffany window, she said to look below
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Could I see the town was burning?
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Could I see the broken prison?
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Could I see that it was time for me to go?
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They looted the museum and took all that they could hold
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A motorcade of flatbed trucks made off with quite a haul
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That’s when I heard someone shout,
E A
“In with the new! Out with the old!”
E A
A dusty box of letters
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A rusting suit of armor
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A casket made of fourteen karat gold
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That’s the problem
C#m B
No sense of time
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She is shaped just like an hourglass there laying on her side
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I loved you Triple Spiral–father, son and ghost
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But you left me in my darkest hour when I needed you,
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when I needed you
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Now that the dream is over I want it to be known
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That I never saw it coming
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Through my little human prism
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How sad it is to know I’m in control
C#m Abm
That’s the problem
C#m B
An empty sky
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I fill it up with everything that is missing from my life
C#m Abm
Where did you come from?
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You fated sign
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Spinning through the centuries expanding all the time
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Three worlds at once that blend together
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Three times I cried for us but I felt better then
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I loved you Triple Spiral, my maiden-mother-crone
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You found me in this fallow state, my mind was off and stowed
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I heard your strange commotion and wished I could go home
E A
To live a little longer
E A
A full Indian summer
F#m B E
Long enough to carve you into stone
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