Cicada Days Ukulele chords by Will Wood

• Difficulty: Beginner 👶

Tuning: G C E A (G C E A)

🎸 Intro:

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🎸 Verse:
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The greener grass grows where the wildfires fertilize,
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With ashes of sparrows, peppered moths, and butterflies. Ghosts of trees and termites
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bloom in the beanstalk.

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And if you get lightheaded when standing too fast, is it from
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shaking out the weight of phosphenes and past salt deposits, on warm little rivers,
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that burst from our words.


🎸 Pre-Chorus:
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And god knows crying ain't gonna change a thing.
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She said "take care" but I take more than I bring.


🎸 Chorus:
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She said, "It just feels inhumane to lose this much.
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'Cause when you leave you know you take more than your love."
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Wake up in a cicada daze, we're losing touch.
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And I know it just feels inhumane to lose this much.


🎸 Verse:
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Our veins were tangled under plastic stars, that were all
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glow in the dark, hanging over queen-sized
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purple waves of ancient chemicals. Just whisper.


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Did you ever build with those endangered bones? Well the
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ground looks soft enough to bury this now. Ohhhh,
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Please, oh no.


🎸 Pre-Chorus:
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And then my sponsor said "Do nothing. Nothing works."
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And my doctor said "Don't do that if it hurts."


🎸 Chorus:
               G                                 D
She said, "It just feels inhumane to lose this much.
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'Cause when you leave you know you take more than your love."
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Wake up in a cicada daze, we're losing touch.
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And I know it just feels inhumane to lose this much.


🎸 Bridge:
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Let all my red flags fade to white, yeah, I give up.
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Don't let me leave, I'll only take more than I gave. Okay, I'll pack my stuff.
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I'm counting up cicada days 'till I wake up.
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My God it feels damn inhumane to lose this much. Woahhhh!


🎸 Outro:
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Keep coming back it works if you work it
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So work it you're worth it it won't if you don't
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One day at a time, tomorrow's too late, amen.