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Broken Butterflies tab by Lucinda Williams

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"Broken Butterflies" by Lucinda Williams
From the album "Essence" (2001)
Written by Lucinda Williams
Tabbed by CJWilky

Standard tuning
No capo


[Intro]
Chord diagramC majorC
Chord diagramC majorC   Chord diagramG+G   Chord diagramDmDm   Chord diagramC majorC
Chord diagramC majorC   Chord diagramG+G   Chord diagramDmDm   Chord diagramC majorC
Chord diagramC majorC   Chord diagramG+G   Chord diagramDmDm   Chord diagramC majorC
    Chord diagramC majorC
You wear your anger well and stand
    Chord diagramG+G
For all the world to see
  Chord diagramDmDm
Chord diagramA augmentedA heavy cloak, that one gloved hand
    Chord diagramC majorC
And no humility


    Chord diagramC majorC
You stand inside the garden
    Chord diagramG+G
And feast on black cherries
    Chord diagramDmDm
And swallow the mana from heaven
    Chord diagramC majorC
And spit out the seeds


    Chord diagramC majorC
You spread your anger on sharp edged knives
       Chord diagramG+G
Cut my skin and make it bleed
     Chord diagramDmDm
Like Pilate in his self-righteousness
          Chord diagramC majorC
You are a traitor and a thief


  Chord diagramC majorC
Choking on your unplanned words
Chord diagramG+G
Coughing up your lies
Chord diagramDmDm
Tumbling from your mouth
            Chord diagramC majorC
Chord diagramA augmentedA flurry of broken butterflies
 Chord diagramC majorC
Broken butterflies
                Chord diagramG+G
They rest their wings snapped in two
Chord diagramDmDm
On their way to certain death
      Chord diagramC majorC
Their colours gold and blue


         Chord diagramC majorC
With the blood that flows I can not hide
    Chord diagramG+G
The blood that covers me
Chord diagramDmDm
Nourishes the butterflies
             Chord diagramC majorC
And they are healed and are set free


  Chord diagramC majorC
I wish you had what Ruth possessed
       Chord diagramG+G
Then I don't expect that of you
Chord diagramDmDm
Grace and honour and faithfulness
      Chord diagramC majorC
And a love that you refused


         Chord diagramC majorC
Will you ever learn to just forgive
         Chord diagramG+G
Will you open your beautiful eyes
    Chord diagramDmDm
And bleed the way Christ did
            Chord diagramC majorC
And fix the broken butterflies


Chord diagramC majorC
Ooooh-ooooh ooooh-ooooh
Chord diagramG+G
Ooooh-ooooh ooooooh
Chord diagramDmDm
Ooooh-ooooh ooooh-ooooh
Chord diagramC majorC
Ooooh-ooooh ooooooh


[Outro]
Chord diagramC majorC   Chord diagramG+G   Chord diagramDmDm   Chord diagramC majorC

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