Standard (EADGBE)

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(barre): 355433

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(barre): x79997

(open): 022100

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Your eyelids are made of lead

You can't keep them up

 Cause its sleepytime

 And that's no crime in the western world

Cause when the sun goes down

 You’re bound to follow through

 Sleeping through the afternoon

 I just can't seem to leave my room

 Waiting for the moon and a love so true

 It's gonna see me through

 You know it's gonna see me through

Cause when the sun goes down

 I'm gonna make like a tree and bloom

 Sleeping through the afternoon

 I just can’t seem to leave my room

 Waiting for the moon and a love so true

 It’s gonna see me through

 You know it’s gonna see me through

(Even though the last part ends on Bb and this part starts on Bb,

I change from Bb1 to Bb2 to get closer to the lower F,

there's a pause anyway, might as well.)

Drifting down the sleepy river

Waking like a child

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Never gonna know what the spirit said

 Unless you drift down for a while

Never gonna know what the wind is whispering now

Never gonna know unless you leave this world somehow

 Unless you leave this world somehow

I woke up on the street

 So apprehensive, feeling weak

 And as I finally tried to speak

 Twelve birds flew straightways from my mouth

 I circled high above the sky

 Began to cry with piercing sounds

 A crowd gathered on the ground

 All speaking strangely through their teeth

 I felt alone and in my creep

 I spoke once more into the wind

 A storm of birds contained therein

 Began to spin, to spin

Your eyelids are made of lead

You can't keep them up

 Cause its sleepytime

 And that's no crime in the western world

Cause when the sun goes down

 You’re bound to follow through

 Sleeping through the afternoon

 I just can't seem to leave my room

 Waiting for the moon and a love so true

 It's gonna see me through

 You know it's gonna see me through

Outro

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