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Chords and lyrics for Laura Laurent by Bright Eyes
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Laura are you still
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livin’
the
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re on your estate of so
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rrows?
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You used to leave it oc
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casionall
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y but now you don’t even
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bother
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to ride the com
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muter
trai
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n west to Chi
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cago
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to stroll through the
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green
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ery in the park past
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the
statues
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how her eyes seemed to
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follow
y
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ou, like a hated
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addiction
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their beauty carved out of
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absolutes you could never claim
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or even en
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vision
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Laura you were the
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saddest song i
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n the shape of a wo
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man
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yeah I thought you were
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beautif
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ul but I wept with your
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movements
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but I hope that you’re
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laughing
n
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ow from that place on the
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carpet
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where we shared a
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sleeping
ba
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g in your sister’s a
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partment
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oh how she would w
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orry so, y
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ou know I was just a str
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anger
but sh
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e asked me to
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care for you, yes she
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did
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and I went and betrayed her
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But do you know we’re
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in high demand, Laur
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a, us, people who suf
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fer?
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because we don’t take to
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arguing
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and we’re quick to su
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rrender.
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Well I think I would
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call
ton
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ight if I still had you
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r
number
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your thoughts have always laid
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close to mine
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, and we’re both skipping s
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upper.
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But you should never be e
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mbarrassed by
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your trouble with l
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iving
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‘Cause it’s the ones with the
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sorest throats, Laura,
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who have done the most singing
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