Abigail

[Verse]
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Do you recall the crippled summer?,
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Your fam'ly all was in deep slumber
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And oh how I loved their ways
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When Leland's haze still lingered

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On my shadow
 D Cadd9

[Verse]
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Your brother he didn't have to die,
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Your mother she didn't have to cry
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Your father didn't have to ask why
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summer was on your chest

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As your eyes glow
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[Verse]
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All our drugstore lawns blew cool so fast,
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The mill was never built to last
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The tort'rous thrill of sweating grass
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Is this town's only sorrowed

[Riff 1]
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Trampled blanket
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[Verse]
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And if I was branded to your foyer
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Through passing carpenters and lawyers
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Agrarians and God's own soldiers
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I would never make it
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[Bridge]
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Do you still dream of dangerous hotels
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Wrapped in glares and daffodil smells
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With your barefeet buried in weeds?

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I still dream of snarled backyards
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And being chased through nighttime's discards
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Where my fence reddens, rusts, and bleeds

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And the curbs are haunted by the killers
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Of memories of your back pillars
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Where nothing wakens as it seems

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All our rooms are hopeful mornings
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Left like tombs when nights are swarming
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And branching feathers fan our dreams

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And your star was the saddest symbol
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Flickered with your mother's thimble
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Pitiful and sunsoaked soggy
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Beautiful inside the muggy
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Ashamed of our bodies in the stream
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[Verse]
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Ah but spring's dumbed voice is just like yours
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And if I had a choice I'd do my chores
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And my work would dumbfound
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The restlessness found in you

[Riff 1]
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[Verse]
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And no one else could understand the truth
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Of the soil burning back to youth
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It's just something that we found
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But now it all thaws damp around you

[Riff 1]
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[Verse]
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And the streets are dry and bare, but they're humming
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The rooftops where the air stops coming down
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To listen for the sound
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Of the tests that surround you
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Abigail

[Outro]
switch to Capo 3
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I said, "Abigal the shore is frozen!"
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Our tar trails, they're all bulldozen now
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Your bygone sounds are cidada-bound,
A   A/G   D   Cadd9

[Riff 1]
They're so shrilling, and night-smoke tarry,
A   A/G   D   Cadd9

[Riff 1]
You should spill them into the starry,
A   A/G   D

[Riff 1]
They are children, and no one's sorry.
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