Letters From Me To Charlotte

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She'd a bruise so black they watched it fade through the full spectrum of colours
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They kept it like a pet, a private joke they told no others
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And oh, how the tissue repaired, and how it turned to yellow
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And she found it disgusting, 'cause it didn't match her clothing
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He said that it's not yellow, it's golden


[Chorus]

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Walk out onto your front lawn and face into the rain
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Shout into the wind, this'll never be the same


[Interlude]

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[Verse 2]

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They promised they'd be best of friends from now until forever
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But both were far too needy not to fall for the other
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And how the frequent public displays of sisterly affection
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Left her feeling safe, left him with an erection


[Chorus]

Bb   Dm    Bb     F              Bb      Dm     Bb
Walk out onto your front lawn and face into the rain
Bb   Dm    Bb     F    Bb      Dm     Bb
Shout into the wind, this'll never be the same


[Interlude]

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[Verse 3]

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Her body barely visible, as bleach-white as the bedsheets
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As stiff as starched, only perceptible
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As her middle was still branded with a heat rash
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In the perfect shape of the Show-Me State

Your come-on lines sound disastrous
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Noise more foreboding than volcano or earthquake


[Chorus]

Bb   Dm    Bb     F              Bb      Dm     Bb
Walk out onto your front lawn and face into the rain
Bb   Dm    Bb     F    Bb      Dm     Bb
Shout into the wind, this'll never be the same

Bb   Dm    Bb     F              Bb      Dm     Bb
Walk out onto your front lawn and face into the rain
Bb   Dm    Bb     F    Bb      Dm     Bb
Shout into the wind, this'll never be the same


[Verse 4]

N.C.
Letter from me to Charlotte
N.C.
"They appropriated everything we ever loved
N.C.
And dressed it up in quotations and fluff
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And I had a dream, though said with hands in pocket
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I mean it hand on heart, you held a gun to his head
                       Dm       F
Pressed your thumbs to her throat", in these letters
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Letters from me to Charlotte


[Chorus]

Bb   Dm    Bb     F              Bb      Dm     Bb
Walk out onto your front lawn and face into the rain
Bb   Dm    Bb     F    Bb      Dm     Bb
Shout into the wind, this'll never be the same

Bb   Dm    Bb     F              Bb      Dm     Bb
Walk out onto your front lawn and face into the rain
Bb   Dm    Bb     F    Bb      Dm     Bb
Shout into the wind, this'll never be the same


[Outro]
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This will never be the same
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Things will never be the same again