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Straight Lines

Suzanne Vega
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Strum
D-DU-UDU
 There's a sound  across the alley
 Of cold metal  touching skin
 And you can see  if you look in her window
 That  she has  gone  and cut her hair  again
 In straight lines
 Straaaaaight  lines
 Those soft golden lights in the morning
 Are now on her wooden floor
 The wind has swept them through the apartment,  she won't need them
Anymore, anymore, anymore
 She's cut down on her lovers
 Though she still dreams of them at night
 She's growing straight lines where once were flowers
 She is streamlined, she is taking the shade down from the light
 To see the straight lines
 Straaaaaight lines
 She wants to cut through the circles
 That she has lived in before
 She wants to finally kill the delusions, she won't need them
 Anymore, anymore, anymore
 There's a sound across the alley
 Of cold metal too close to the bone
 And you can see if you look in her window
 The face of a woman finally alone
 Behind straight lines
 Straaaaaight lines
 Behind straight lines
 Straaaaaight lines

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Readable chord sheet for Straight Lines by Suzanne Vega

[D]      [D]   [Dsus4]         [D]     [Ds9]   [D]   [Dsus4]
[D]      [Ds9]   [D]   [Dsus4]         [D]     [Ds9]   [D]   [Dsus4]
There's a sound [Ds9]      [D]    [Ds4]    across the alley [Ds9]       [D]           [Ds4]
Of cold metal [Ds9]      [D]    [Ds4]    touching skin [Ds9]       [D]           [Ds4]
And you can [D]see [Ds9]      [D]    [Dsus4]    if you look in her wi[D]ndow   [Ds9]         [D]             [Dsus4]
[D]  That[Ds9] she h[D]as g[Dsus4]one and cut her hair[D] again[Ds9]      [D]          [Dsus4]

In straight [D]lines [Ds9]       [D]           [Dsus4]                        [D]                              [Ds9]                                    [D]                                        [Dsus4]
Straaaaa[D]ight li[Ds9]nes   [D]       [Dsus4]                    [D]                          [Ds9]                                [D]                                    [Dsus4]

[Eb]  Those soft golden lights in the m[F]orning
[Eb]  Are now on her wooden [F]floor
[Eb]  The wind has swept them through the ap[F]artment, she won't need them
[Gm]Anymore, [F]anymore, [Eb]anymore  [Dsus4]

She's cut down on her lovers
Though she still dreams of them at night
She's growing straight lines where once were flowers
She is streamlined, she is taking the shade down from the light

To see the straight lines
Straaaaaight lines

She wants to cut through the circles
That she has lived in before
She wants to finally kill the delusions, she won't need them
Anymore, anymore, anymore

There's a sound across the alley
Of cold metal too close to the bone
And you can see if you look in her window
The face of a woman finally alone

Behind straight lines
Straaaaaight lines
Behind straight lines
Straaaaaight lines

[End on Dsus4.]

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