Oh You Are The Roots That Sleep Beneath My Feet And Hold The Earth In Place

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                                 Bright Eyes
  Oh, You Are the Roots That Sleep Beneath My Feet and Hold the Earth in Place
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Tabbed by: Idiotekk

Standard tuning

Verse
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  D                 Bm
I met you through a common friend
       G           D
In the attic of my parent's house
                    Bm
And though I didn't know it then
  G                A
I soon was finding out
 
Chorus
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            Bm                 G
You are the roots that sleep beneath my feet 
    D                 A
And hold the earth in place
            Bm
Each time a faucet opens
G                     D            A 
Words are spoken, the water runs away 
                G 
And I hear your name
                D
No, nothing has changed

D  Bm  G  D

Verse 
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There was this book I read and loved
The story of a ship
Who sailed around the world and found
That nothing else exists

Chorus
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Beyond its own two sails
And wooden shell 
And what is held within
All else is sure to pass
We clutch and grasp
And debate what's truly permanent
But when the wind starts to shift
There's no argument

Interlude
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  D                  A
I sing and drink and sleep on floors
    Bm              G 
And try hard not to be annoyed
   F#m              Bm             A
By all these people worrying about me
            D                      A 
So when I'm suffering through some awful drive
    Bm           G 
You occasionally cross my mind
       F#m               Bm            A
It's my hidden hope that you are still among them
Well, are you?

F#m G A x2

Oh, you are the roots that sleep beneath my feet 
And hold the earth in place
Each time a curtain opens
Sunlight pours in
A lifetime melts away
And we share a name
On some picturesque grave

repeat the interlude and there you have it



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