====== The Left Side ======

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[Em]A pretty one-eyed girl [Am]from the state of Maine
[Em]can't see the church: it's on the [Am]left side of her brain.

But it's [D]clothed in browning leaves and it [C]wants to take her in,
and [D]there's a parsons robe inside that [C]wants to feel her skin.

[Em]And the sleeves of warm, black cloth are [Am]hungry for her wrists,
[Em]and the first page of the Holy Book is [Am]hungry for her kiss.

>[G]She'll go home, all a[C]lone on the [G]right hand of the [C]interstate
>[G]and the church upon the [C]hill it will [G]sit in crumbling [C]leaves

>>and it will
>>[F]wait for her, [C]wait to be together. But [N.C.]she won't want it, ever.

[Em]It's like a dream I had: this [Am]girl I went to see
[Em](and I can't sing her name, she might be [Am]listening to me),

in a [D]room of missing tiles we [C]felt ourselves entwine,
[D]and she bit my tongue and shouted as I [C]crawled into her mind.

It was [Em]full of singing mouths and [Am]apples in the air,
a [Em]soft, warm little room that was sur[Am]rounded by her hair.

And a[D]lone, when we woke, we [C]stretched our legs and spoke
to the [D]people we were sleeping with in [C]voices not our own,

>in the [G]cool of our [C]beds, with the [G]words just dissi[C]pating
>in the [G]empty air a[C]head, and this [G]other world just [C]waiting
>[F]until we're [D]dead.
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