Needles
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Afinação: E A D G B ECapotraste:
7th traste
[Intro]
D D
[Verse 1]
G
Flowers are toys
D
Bees are old boys
C G
She wears a dress like a song wears a voice
D C
A terrible choice, a girl over boy
G D
The boots of a man and the hooves of a horse
[Verse 2]
C G
Incarnate hour, surgical charm
D C
Her eyebrows are just like the ink of a brush
G D
Needles are thin and kept in a tin
C G
Time is a wind sweeping everything clean
[Verse 3]
D C
Left in the sun without its lid on
G D
The texture is leached by the white of the sheet
C
The bed is unmade
G
It's a wonderful day
D C
The curtains behave like the soul of a wave
[Verse 4]
G D
A house is deserted so nobody heard
C G
The ring of a phone, it was starting to rain
D
Her makeup was leaking
C
She just didn't need it
G D
Her eyebrows are just link the ink of a brush
C G
The texture explodes so deliciously slow
D C
The curtains rejoice like the sea of a coast
[Verse 5]
G D
Bow to the host, not to the toast
C G
Glasses that sing when you rub them with skin
D C
Back is across the cheek of a rock
G D
Things live below with stomach of stone
C G
Flowers arrive they live in the like
D C
The base of a stone is a wonderful home
[Verse 6]
G D
Mountains are pure, they're never unsure
C G
The rocks are so old that they haven't been sold
D C
She told me a story 'bout how someone had hurt her
G D
Her freckly face was full of kindness and grace
[Verse 7]
C G
I love jumping rocks, it's one thing I got
D C
I bounce like a doe, I wish I wasn't alone
G D
Help me to find the time to be kind
C G
Give me a call, I want to tell you it all
[Verse 8]
D C
Needles are sly, they hide from your eyes
G D
All the buckets of blood from all the fingers and thumbs
C G
Forests are free, there's nothing they need
D C
I lie on the needles listening to its beetles
G D
The scent of the worm the coo of a bird
C G
The creak of the wood everything as it should
[Verse 9]
D C
The clack of my bones, the thought of blood as it flows
G D
My tremulous heart as it falters and starts
C G
Pieces of glass are no longer sharp
D C
Bottles thrown into the sea long ago
G D
Kids on the beach learning to drink
C G
Eventually tossed into the foam in the rocks
D C
Hearing a new song for the very first time
G D
It started me sobbing like it pulled something from me
[Verse 10]
C G
Listening to songs I used to when I was young
D C
Remembering friends when we all hated our beds
G D
We giggle and croon, cackle and swoon
C G
Keeping each other close like sisters and brothers
D C
I've been missing the past ever since I was cast
C
And now that I'm old
[Outro]
C D
Now that I'm old
C
I miss you ten thousand fold
G D C G D C x2
How to play Needles
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What is the starting chord?
The first identified chord is E. You can transpose without leaving the page.
Can I play it on guitar or keyboard?
Yes. The chord progression works on acoustic guitar, electric guitar and keyboard. Adapt the voicings to your instrument and level.