STRAIGHT LINES (Suzanne Vega)
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A      A - As4         A     As9 - A - As4
[intro]
A      As9 - A - As4         A     As9 - A - As4
[intro]

                As9 - A - As4                  As9 - A - As4
There's a sound               across the alley
              As9 - A - As4               As9 - A - As4
Of cold metal               touching skin
            A   As9 - A - As4                    A      As9 - A - As4
And you can see               if you look in her window
A     As9 - A - As4               A     As9 - A - As4
  That she has gone and cut her hair again

            A     As9 - A - As4        A     As9 - A - As4
In straight lines
        A      As9 - A - As4        A     As9 - A - As4
Straaaaaight lines

Bb                                 C
  Those soft golden lights in the morning
Bb                      C
  Are now on her wooden floor
Bb                                      C
  The wind has swept them through the apartment, she won't need them
Dm       C        Bb       As4
Anymore, anymore, anymore


She's cut down on her lovers
Though she still dreams of them at night
She's growing straight lines where once were flowers
She is streamlined, she is taking the shade down from the light

To see the straight lines
Straaaaaight lines

She wants to cut through the circles
That she has lived in before
She wants to finally kill the delusions, she won't need them
Anymore, anymore, anymore

There's a sound across the alley
Of cold metal too close to the bone
And you can see if you look in her window
The face of a woman finally alone

Behind straight lines
Straaaaaight lines
Behind straight lines
Straaaaaight lines

[End on Asus4.]



- transcribed by Adam Schneider, http://adamschneider.net/