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Chords and lyrics for I Believe In Symmetry by Bright Eyes
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Some plans were made and rice was thrown
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A house was built, a baby bor
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n
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How time can move both fast an
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d
slow
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Amazes
me
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And so I raise my glass to symmetry
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C
To the second hand and its accurac
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y
C
To the actual size of everyth
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ing
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The desert is the sand
Em
You can’t hold it in your hand
C
It won’t bow to your demands
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There’s no difference you can make
D
There’s no difference you can make
Em
And if it seems like an accident
C
A collage of senselessness
Am
You aren’t looking hard enough
D
I wasn’t looking hard enough
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An argument for consciousness
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C
The instinct of the blind inse
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ct
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Who makes love to the flower b
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ed
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And dies in the first freeze
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Oh I want to learn such simple thin
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gs
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No politics, no history
D
C
Till what I want and what I ne
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ed
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Can finally be the same
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I just got myself to blame
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Is everything up to fate
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When there’s choices I could make
D
When there’s choices I could make
Em
Yeah, my heart needs a polygraph
C
Always so eager to pack my bags
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When I really wanna stay
D
When I really wanna stay
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The arc of time, the stench of sex
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The innocence you can’t protect
D
Each quarter note, each marble step
D
Walk up and down that lonely treble clef
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Each wanting the next one
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Each wanting the next one to arrive
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Each wanting the next one
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Each wanting the next one to arrive
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An argument for consciousness
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The instinct of the blind insect
D
Who never thinks not to accept its fate
D
That’s fate, that’s happiness and death
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You get to the next one
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You get to the next on down the line
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You get to the next one
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You get to the next on down the line
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The remedy of longing that
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Distills each dream and the song I had
D
By morning watered down again
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On silver stars I wish and wish and wish
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Move on to the next one
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Move on to the next one down the line
C
Move on to the next one
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Move on to the next one down the line
C
You get to the next one
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You get to the next on down the line
C
You get to the next one
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You get to the next on down the line