Secret Circus Chords

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

A ♫ 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