From a Balance Beam Chords

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[Verse 1]
[D]There's a man holding a megaphone
He must [A]have been the voice [D]of God
The [A]bystand[D]ers claimed
they saw angels
Flying up [A]and down the block
Well, they must have [G]been
attached to wires
I've seen one [Bm]laying in
the lawn with [A]a broken arm
So I called 911
Well, that's one [D]less founded opinion
One more [A]cause for a dispute
[D]So the street filled like a basin
Up with cam[A]eras and their crews
[G]And they washed away the rumors
Leav[D]ing [Bm]just the concrete truth
It was [A]a spectacle
No, I, I mean a miracle
So I [D]fell like a girl from
a bal[A]ance beam
A gym[D]nasium of eyes,
all are hold[G]ing on to me
I lifted one foot to cross the other
and I [Bm]felt myself slipping
It was a small [A]mistake
Sometimes that's all it [G]takes

[Verse 2]
[Bm]Now I'm staring at my [G]wrist
Hoping that the timing is [A]right
When the planets will [D]align
There will be no planets [G]to align
Just the carcass of the sun
[Gm]With little painted marbles
Spin[G]ning senseless through
an endless black [D]sky
[A]And so it never started And

[Verse 3]
[D]
it will never stop
Just like I am and you are

[Verse 4]
It was in [D]a foreign hotel bathtub
I bap[A]tized myself [D]in change
And one by one, I drowned all
of the [A]people I [G]had [A]been
[G]And I emerged to find the
parallels were few[Bm]er
I was cleansed
I looked [A]in the mirror and
someone new was there
But I was as [D]helpless as a chess piece
When I was lifted [A]up by someone's [D]hand
And delivered from the corner
My enemies [A]had got me in
[G]But in all of my salvation I still
[Bm]felt imprisoned inside
That [A]holding cell that is myself
So [D]I wait for the day when I'll hear [A]the key
As [D]it turns in the lock [A]and
[G]the guard will say to me
[A]"Oh, my pat[G]ient prisoner,
you have waited for this [Bm]day and finally
You [A]are free, you are free,
you are freezing"
[G]Now

[Verse 5]
[Bm]I'm staring at t[G]he sun
Waiting for it to ex[A]plode
Because a day is gonna [D]come
Don't know when, but it will [G]come
And we'll finally know the way
[Gm]out of h[G]ere

[Verse 6]
[G]And I'll throw away this wrinkled map
And my chart of stars and compass,
cracked
And I'll climb that tree
all wet with sap
To avoid the hungry beasts below
I'll cut out my lover's tongue and sing
Of a graveyard grey
and a garden green
And we won't have to worry no more
No, we won't have to wonder again
About how this song or story ends
About how this song and story will end
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