The Lakes

[Intro]
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[Verse 1]
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 Is it romantic how all my elegies eulogize me?
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 I'm not cut out for all these cynicalclones
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These hunters with cell phones

[Chorus]
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   Take me to the Lakes where all the poets went to die
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I don't belong  and, my beloved,
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neither do you
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   Those Windermere peaks look like a perfect place to cry
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I'm setting off, but not without my muse

[Verse 2]
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 What should be over burrowed under my skin
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In heartstopping waves of hurt
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 I've come too far to watch some namedropping sleaze
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Tell me what are my words worth

[Chorus]
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   Take me to the Lakes where all the poets went to die
              Bm
I don't belong  and, my beloved,
           A/C#
neither do you
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   Those Windermere peaks look like a perfect place to cry
                A
I'm setting off, but not without my muse

[Bridge]
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I want auroras and sad prose
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I want to watch wisteria grow right over my bare feet
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'Cause I  haven't moved in  years
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  And I want you right here
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 A red rose grew up out of ice frozen ground
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With no one around to tweet it
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 While I bathe in cliffside pools
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With my calamitous love and insurmountable grief

[Chorus]
F#m                               G
   Take me to the Lakes where all the poets went to die
              Bm
I don't belong  and, my beloved,
           A/C#
neither do you
F#m                                 G
   Those Windermere peaks look like a perfect place to cry
                A
I'm setting off, but not without my muse
No, not without you

[Outro]
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[Fade Out]
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