Sylvia An Introduction chords by The Antlers

G        Bm
When you were younger, you had nightmares
    C        G    G/F#
You had scissor-pain and phantom limbs
  Em        Am
And things that kept you nervous
       C         D
Through that twelve-year interim
     G         Bm
When you fell crossing that street
     C        G   G/F#
South of Houston, old Manhattan land
   Em         Am
Those nightmares fell from building-tops
  C        D
And took you by the hand
       G         Bm
And you were brought into those rooms
       C         G     G/F#
With sliding curtains, shining children's heads
  Em        Am
And one of them, that boy
      C      D
Was not as lucky as you then
    G         Bm
But he returns to you at night
       C          G   G/F#
Just when you think you might have fallen asleep
  Em     Am
His face is up against yours
        C      D
And you're too terrified to speak
Am    D
Oh, Sylvia
Am    D
Oh, Sylvia
Em             Am
You may think that I'm not listening
   C       D
But I am, goddamn, I am
    G       Bm
I won't pretend I understand
     C         G   G/F#
Because I can't, and know I never will
  Em         Am
But something makes you sting
       C         D
And something makes you want to kill
      G        Bm
It made you crawl under that house
        C       G   G/F#
And stick your head under the stove
   Em
It's all connected
 Am         C          D
In those complicated nightmares that you wove
Am    D
Oh, Sylvia
Am    D
Oh, Sylvia
    Em         Am
You may think that I'm not listening
  C       D