Tom: D
D
Abigail, the shore is frozen,
G F#m
Our tar trails have been bulldozin' down
Bm
Your sharpened frown,
E A A/G
Once had me possessed
[Riff 1]
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D Cadd9
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B|---3s5-------3-|
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A|---------------|
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D Cadd9 G (walkdown into verse)
[Verse]
D
Do you recall the crippled summer?,
G
Your fam'ly all was in deep slumber
F#m Bm
And oh how I loved their ways
E A A/G
When Leland's haze still lingered
[Riff 1]
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On my shadow
D Cadd9
[Verse]
D
Your brother he didn't have to die,
G
Your mother she didn't have to cry
F#m Bm
Your father didn't have to ask why
E A A/G
summer was on your chest
[Riff 1]
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D|-2s4-2-0h2-0-|
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As your eyes glow
D Cadd9
[Verse]
D
All our drugstore lawns blew cool so fast,
G
The mill was never built to last
F#m Bm
The tort'rous thrill of sweating grass
E A A/G
Is this town's only sorrowed
[Riff 1]
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Trampled blanket
D Cadd9
[Verse]
D
And if I was branded to your foyer
G
Through passing carpenters and lawyers
F#m Bm
Agrarians and God's own soldiers
E A A/G
I would never make it
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B|-----------------0-|-----------------0-|-----------------0-|-------------------3-2-|
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D|-2s4-2-0h2-0-----2-|-2s4-2p0---0-----0-|-2s4-2p0---0-----2-|-2s4-2p0---0-------4-2-|
A|-----------------2-|---------2-------2-|---------2-------2-|---------2---2-0-2-2-0-|
E|-------------0-0-0-|-------------3-3-3-|-------------0-0-0-|-------------------x-x-|
[Riff 2]
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[Bridge]
G A
Do you still dream of dangerous hotels
F#m Bm
Wrapped in glares and daffodil smells
G Bm Bb A
With your barefeet buried in weeds?
[Riff 2]
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A|---------2---|
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G A
I still dream of snarled backyards
F#m Bm
And being chased through nighttime's discards
G Bm Bb A
Where my fence reddens, rusts, and bleeds
[Riff 2]
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A|---------2---|
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G A
And the curbs are haunted by the killers
F#m Bm
Of memories of your back pillars
G Bm Bb A
Where nothing wakens as it seems
[Riff 2]
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A|---------2---|
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G A
All our rooms are hopeful mornings
F#m Bm
Left like tombs when nights are swarming
G Bm Bb A
And branching feathers fan our dreams
[Riff 2]
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D|-2s4-2P0---0-|
A|---------2---|
E|-------------|
C A
And your star was the saddest symbol
F#m Bm
Flickered with your mother's thimble
G A
Pitiful and sunsoaked soggy
F#m Bm
Beautiful inside the muggy
G Bm Bb A
Ashamed of our bodies in the stream
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A|---------2---1-1s3s1-0---2-2s4s5s2p0---------|
E|-----------------------3-------------2s5p0-0-|
[Verse]
D
Ah but spring's dumbed voice is just like yours
G
And if I had a choice I'd do my chores
F#m Bm
And my work would dumbfound
E A A/G
The restlessness found in you
[Riff 1]
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D Cadd9
[Verse]
D
And no one else could understand the truth
G
Of the soil burning back to youth
F#m Bm
It's just something that we found
E A A/G
But now it all thaws damp around you
[Riff 1]
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B|-------------|
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D|-2s4-2-0h2-0-|
A|-------------|
E|-------------|
D Cadd9
[Verse]
D
And the streets are dry and bare, but they're humming
G F#m
The rooftops where the air stops coming down
Bm
To listen for the sound
E A A/G
Of the tests that surround you
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D|-2s4-2-2s5-4-4s7-5-5s8-7-x-5-|
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E|-------------------------x-3-|
Abigail
[Outro]
switch to Capo 3
D
I said, "Abigal the shore is frozen!"
G F#m
Our tar trails, they're all bulldozen now
Bm E
Your bygone sounds are cidada-bound,
A A/G [Riff 1] D Cadd9
They're so shrilling, and night-smoke tarry,
A A/G [Riff 1] D Cadd9
You should spill them into the starry,
A A/G [Riff 1] D
They are children, and no one's sorry.
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| h Hammer-on
| x Dead note
| p Pull off
| s Slide
