L-dopa chords by Laura Stevenson

Verse 1:
C                   C         A7
I'm a bright, white egg and I incubate
     Am    G                   C
In a warm, yellow light in the winter
C                                A7
And I'll hatch on a snow-covered morning
       Am          G               C
And no one will be awake to see it happen

Verse 2:
            Am                  G
There is no history, there's no expectation
     A7    G                  C
Just warm, yellow light on my skin
C                                    A7
And I'm blessed by my mother, though I'll never know her
         G                 C
And I'll never be lonesome again

Verse 3:
C                             A7
I'm a bright entertainer in a silent theater
  Am      G      C
I wearily quarry into
      C                            A7
And my mother she stands where the characters dance
         Am           G             C
From the light at the height of the room

Verse 4:
C         Am
And every night I repeat the phrases
        G                       C
Just to see if she predicts the changes
        C                      A7
And I'd die for a word if it's all she'd afford
        Am        G       C
But she closes up knowing it

Bridge:
A7      C     G        A7            G
Where I am is right at the beginning of it
A7    C     G              C
All I know, I was born with
A7         C         G          A7        C            G
Where she is, she is fixed in a prison so fast, she is frozen
    A7      C             G        C
The air she breathes is a slow wind

Verse 5:
C                              A7
I'm a tired arachnid, spinning loose in my threads
         Am           G        C
Building lifetimes of gossamer beds
C                      A7
And the filigree water drops around my head
     Am           G           C
They absorb every word that I said

Verse 6:
C            Am                  C
There are no wings hitched to my spine
G                       C
Just an undying urge to climb
C                            A7
And I'll wait for my mother, supposing she'd bother
Am             G         A7
To hold me and keep me a while
C              G         A7
To hold me and keep me a while
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