The Weakerthans
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Left & Leaving (2000)

A                    E                 (semi-P.M.)
I count to three and grin
                     F♯m
You smile and let me in
                     Dmaj9             w/ c♯ \ e  c♯
We sit and watch the wall
You painted purple

A                    E
Speech will spill on space
                   F♯m
Our little cups of grace
                  D
But pauses rattle on
About the way that you

  F♯m                  E/G♯                  A        E/B   D
  Cut that snow-fence, braved the blood, the metal of those hearts
           F♯m           E/G♯           A(6)
  That you always end up pressing your tongue to
           F♯m          E/G♯               A          E/B D
  How your body still remembers things you told it to forget
            F♯m       E/G♯              A(maj9)  D(maj9)  P.M.
  How those furious affections followed you

I've got this store-bought way         (stop puis rembarque)
Of saying I'm okay
And you learned how to cry
In total silence

We're talented and bright
We're lonely and uptight
We've found some lovely ways
To disappoint

  But the airport's always almost empty this time of the year
  So let's go play on a baggage carousel
  Set our watches forward like we're just arriving here
  From a past we left in a place we knew too well, knew too well

Amaj9  A  Amaj9  A  Dmaj9  D  Dmaj9  D

     A (reste) E
Hold on to the corners of today
          F♯m                             D
And we'll fold them up to save until it's needed
      A             E
Stand still, let me scrub that brackish line
         F♯m                                D
That you got when something rose and then receded

A  E  F♯m  D7  AAA!