Emmy the Great - Atoms

^DI know you’re going soon ^AIt’s ok, I won’t freak ^DCan see it in your eyes, you’ve been mo^F#ving out for weeks ^EmYou’ve found a girl, she’s so m^Auch prettier than me ^EmShe’s much cleverer than me ^AShe’s so much happier than me

^DYou want a lover who takes time^A over her looks ^DNot some stupid kid who’s always ^F#wrapped up in her books ^EmBut can I help it if ^Aa sentence makes me cry? ^EmAnd the pavement makes me cry ^AAnd the thought of you and I

Oh, just leav^De There’s nothing muc^Ah I want to say But close the door ^D You know how^F# the atmosphere decays^Em my bones I feel the atoms on my^A skin ^EmOh, I feel the matter clo^Asing in

^DFrom my perch I see the unive^Arse as one ^DSee the planets in their glor^F#y, slowly dancing with the sun ^EmSee my ancestors in monkey c^Aostumes fucking on the rocks ^EmSee the priestess and her broth^Aer and the farmer and his crops

^DAll these sacred histories have led to t^Ahis one day ^DWhen you face me on the stairs and say you ha^F#ve to go away ^EmAnd time stops like ice where all around it on^Ace was hot ^EmSo don’t begrudge a girl her books cos they’re^A all a girl has got

^DThey sit there now ^AThe words unflinching in their strength ^DYou see I only ever read ^F#Cos I wish I was brave as them ^DAnd I know these words will never leave me standin^Ag on the stairs ^DJust like my frozen ancestors they alwa^F#ys will be there ^EmIn print, just like your image on m^Ay heart ^EmFor ever like the planets light^A the dark ^EmJust like our world is waltzi^Ang with the sun ^EmJust like when this world explodes it makes another one ^A

Oh you, just ^Dleave I always wanted you^A to be free But next time^D you see the planets try and thin^F#k of me ^EmAnd this moment on a stairway where I thought ^Athat I could see ^EmAll the atoms in your lover, she’s much p^Arettier than me ^EmAnd can I help it if an atom mak^Aes me cry? ^EmI can’t help it if she’s happier^A than I

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