Atoms

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{tuning: Standard (EADGBE)}
[D]I know you’re going soon
[A]It’s ok, I won’t freak
[D]Can see it in your eyes, you’ve been movi[F#]ng out for weeks
[Em]You’ve found a girl, she’s so much [A]prettier than me
[Em]She’s much cleverer than me
[A]She’s so much happier than me

[D]You want a lover who takes time[A] over her looks
[D]Not some stupid kid who’s always wr[F#]apped up in her books
[Em]But can I help it if [A]a sentence makes me cry?
[Em]And the pavement makes me cry
[A]And the thought of you and I

Oh, just leav[D]e
There’s nothing much [A]I want to say
But close the door           [D]
You know how[F#] the atmosphere decays[Em] my bones
I feel the atoms on my[A] skin
[Em]Oh, I feel the matter clo[A]sing in

[D]From my perch I see the unive[A]rse as one
[D]See the planets in their glor[F#]y, slowly dancing with the sun
[Em]See my ancestors in monkey c[A]ostumes fucking on the rocks
[Em]See the priestess and her broth[A]er and the farmer and his crops

[D]All these sacred histories have led to t[A]his one day
[D]When you face me on the stairs and say you ha[F#]ve to go away
[Em]And time stops like ice where all around it on[A]ce was hot
[Em]So don’t begrudge a girl her books cos they’re all[A] a girl has got

[D]They sit there now
[A]The words unflinching in their strength
[D]You see I only ever read
[F#]Cos I wish I was brave as them
[D]And I know these words will never leave me standin[A]g on the stairs
[D]Just like my frozen ancestors they alwa[F#]ys will be there
[Em]In print, just like your image on m[A]y heart
[Em]For ever like the planets light[A] the dark
[Em]Just like our world is waltzi[A]ng with the sun
[Em]Just like when this world explodes it makes another one  [A]

Oh you, just [D]leave
I always wanted you[A] to be free
But next time[D] you see the planets try and thin[F#]k of me
[Em]And this moment on a stairway where I thought [A]that I could see
[Em]All the atoms in your lover, she’s much pre[A]ttier than me
[Em]And can I help it if an atom mak[A]es me cry?
[Em]I can’t help it if she’s happier tha[A]n I

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