Secret Circus chords by Emmy The Great

• Difficulty: Intermediate

Key: A

♫ Intro:

A



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

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♫ Chorus:

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

♫ Verse 2:

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

A

♫ Chorus 2:

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

♫ Chorus 3:

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