The Handsome Family - Lake geneva
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Lake Geneva
From the album Milk And Scissors
[INTRO]
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[VERSE 1]
You are crEouched before the fire
in a sF#mtate park by the highway
and thrBough the heavy pine trees
ten-ton trAucks go groaning Eby
[VERSE 2]
Like the scrEeams of your Aunt Barbara
who went cF#mrazy in the 70's
wrote pBoems to Jimmy Carter
but forgAot to feed her kEids
[CHORUS]
But it's the fG#irst time you're together
since he gAot out of the hEospital
G#Raccoons in the darkness
drag oAff your hotdog bBuns
[VERSE 3]
But, you're hEappy just to lie there
in your pF#mlastic tent from Wal-Mart
like stBicks and fallen dead leaves
to feed the fAire of the wEorld
[INTERLUDE]
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B|-5------5--5/2------2--------------------------5---5---2-5-|
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[VERSE 4]
But whEich is more important,
to F#mcomfort an old woman
or see vBisions of the heavens
in the stAumps of fallen trEees?
[CHORUS]
G#Albert Einstein trembled
when he sAaw that time was wEater,
G#seeping through the rafters
to put oAut this burning wBorld
[INTERLUDE]
E F#m B A E
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G|-13----------------------------------------13-13/14---------------|
D|-14---14----------16--16------------------------------------------|
A|---------14-14/16-------------16--16/18---------------------------|
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[VERSE 5]
Next mEorning you're at Waffle House
TF#moast and eggs and hash browns
TrBuckers chain-smoke Camels
over plAastic cups of jEuice
[CHORUS]
And you reG#member how he cried
when they strAapped him to the strEetcher,
conG#vinced his arms were burning
with electrAicity from hEeaven
You remG#ember how he told you
that blAack holes were like JEesus
And the crG#ucifix was a battery
that fAilled the air with fBire
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