Chords with lyrics
Key: D MajorD
🎸 Intro:
D MajorD F minorFm C minorCm BB BB
🎸 Verse 1:
B minorBm E minorEm
Simone writes little of much consequence
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Unless the theater’s how you pay the rent
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A augmentedA new work of some semi-memoir sits
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Inside the weekend book editors desk
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And while they have not mentioned it
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She must watch roses get thrown at less
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Oh, the indignity
🎸 Chorus:
A augmentedA D MajorD G+G
It was just the thing for their Q4
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“Deeply funny” was the rave refrain
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It was just the thing for their Q4
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It’ll be on stands before the holidays
🎸 Instrumental:
D MajorD F minorFm C minorCm BB BB
🎸 Verse 2:
B minorBm E minorEm
Her sister was not much long for this world
A augmentedA D MajorD G minorGm
She danced as if a dancer danced as if
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As if she had a body to sustain
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As if an audience to entertain
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This ironic distance kept her sane
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While her vessel sailed away
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It was all very literary
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And the truth was
🎸 Chorus:
A augmentedA D MajorD G+G
It was just the thing for their Q4
D MajorD A augmentedA
What’s “deeply funny” mean anyhow?
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It was just the thing for their Q4
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These are the stories that we need right now
🎸 Bridge:
F#F#
How could she compete?
B minorBm
(I’m sure she wouldn’t mind)
With a memory such as she
G+G
(But who else then I)
Leigh died so many months ago
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(Could write the story of her life)
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“By now this tragedy’s my own!”
FF E minorEm A augmentedA
Oh, oh, oh-oh oh-oh
🎸 Instrumental:
B minorBm E minorEm A augmentedA D MajorD
G minorGm D MajorD G minorGm
🎸 Chorus:
A augmentedA D MajorD G+G
It was just the thing for their Q4
D MajorD A augmentedA
“Deeply funny” was the rave refrain
D MajorD G+G
It was just the thing for their Q4
D MajorD A augmentedA
It’ll be on stands before the holidays
🎸 Chorus:
A augmentedA D MajorD G+G
It was just the thing for their Q4
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The film adaptation was a total mess
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It was just the thing for their Q4
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’Til she was outed for her privilege
🎸 Chorus:
A augmentedA D MajorD G+G
It was just a thing for their Q4
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Can’t see her brother now unsupervised
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It was just the thing for their Q4
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Her family switched care right when she inquired…