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Anyones Ghost
The National
Text File
(Standard tuning)
Verse 1:
Em C Am D
Say you stay at home, alone with the flu
Em C Am D
Find out from friends that wasn't true
Em C Am D
Go out at night with your headphones on, again
Em C Am D
And walk through the Manhattan valleys of, the dead
Chorus:
C Am Em G
Didn't want to be your ghost, didn't want to be anyone's ghost
C Am Em G
Didn't want to be your ghost, didn't want to be anyone's ghost
Am C Dm G
But I don't want anybody else, I don't want anybody else
Verse 2:
Em C Am D
You said I came close as anyone's come
Em C Am D
to live underwater for more than a month
Em C Am D
You said it was not inside my heart, it was
Em C Am D
You said it should tear a kid apart, it does
Chorus:
C Am Em G
Didn't want to be your ghost, didn't want to be anyone's ghost
C Am Em G
Didn't want to be your ghost, didn't want to be anyone's ghost
Am C Dm G
But I don't want anybody else, I don't want anybody else
Am C Dm G
I don't want anybody else, I don't want anybody else
Bridge:
Am C Em
I had a hole in the middle where the lightning went through it
G
told my friends not to worry
Am C Em
I had a hole in the middle someone's sideshow wouldn't do it
G
I told my friends not to worry
Chorus:
C Am Em G
Didn't want to be your ghost, didn't want to be anyone's ghost
C Am Em G
Didn't want to be your ghost, didn't want to be anyone's ghost