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C (run1) (melody 1)
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(sounds funny if you finish it)
C (run2) (melody 2)
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A                     C#m     
sun just clearing the treeline 
Bm             A(fill)
when my day begins.
A                     C#m
slippery ice on the bridges,
Bm                         A(fill)
northeastern wind coming in.


A                   C#m
you will bruise my head,
Bm                  A(fill)
I will strike your heel.
A                    C#m
drive past woods of northern pine,
Bm                         A(fill)
try not to let go of the wheel.


            C
dream at night
C (run1                  A
girl with a cobra tattoo 
         C
on her arm,
C (run2)                              A
it's head flaring out like a parachute.


prisms in the dew drops
in the underbrush
skatecase sailor's purses floating
down in the black needlerush


higher than the stars
I will set my throne.
God does not need Abraham,
God can raise children from stones.


dream at night
girl with a cobra tattoo
and try to hear
the garbled transmissions come through.