Secret Circus chords by Emmy The Great

Chords with lyrics

• Difficulty: Intermediate

Key: A augmentedA

♫ Intro:

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♫ Verse 1:
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I left my friends
     B minorBm   A augmentedA    E MajorE
For the strangers of the town
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Between doves and elephants
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There can be no common ground
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Time obscures their dreary tongues
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Makes a ghost of everyone
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Call them what they are - a million shadows!
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They all get pregant or diseased

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♫ Chorus:

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I didn't send for you when I was meant to.
                 D MajorD
Lost a friend in you but then I meant to.
             E MajorE
And only my skirts only my skirts miss you now.
          A augmentedA                F# minorF#m
You told me that no matter where I went would be a prison
                 D MajorD
That the world is harsh I know it is but
E MajorE
It only hurts it only hurts if you say, 'Ow!'
              C# minorC#m        D MajorD
The things that you don't think about don't exist.

♫ Verse 2:

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The day I left, there was a lightning strike
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Left a border of flame
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I tasted carbon on the knife
B minorBm  F# minorF#m   E MajorE
Felt the shape of your name.
      F# minorF#m        D MajorD
Everybody knew, the secret circus
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Was a fairy tale, but I
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Thought I saw a big top in the darkness
C# minorC#m        D MajorD
Thought I heard a whiplash split the sk-y

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♫ Chorus 2:

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Should've heard the helicopter screaming
      F# minorF#m
Everybody thought that they were dreaming
        C# minorC#m          D MajorD
Everything was hot, the ground was steaming
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Voices calling out across the water
      F# minorF#m
Firemen and tv news reporters
          C# minorC#m   D MajorD
Stepping on their video recorders
    C# minorC#m    D MajorD      C# minorC#m         D MajorD
Oh but cameras are liars I saw bears and there were tigers

♫ Chorus 3:

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Then I heard brass in the hiss of the propeller sound
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And there were shuffles in the desert as the players gather round
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And there were faces in the vapours, there were acrobats and clowns
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You always told me that I tend to overdramatise
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But I have seen these things with my very own eyes
        C# minorC#m
And then they faded into ether
     D MajorD
And I don't know why
      A augmentedA
I guess I didn't hear the call for when the curtain died
       C# minorC#m       D MajorD      DmDm
Because the things you set on fire don't exist