Artist: The Shins
Album: Oh, Inverted World
Song: Know Your Onion!
Tabbed by: Scott Putman - drumshanbo79@hotmail.com
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Shut out, pimpled and angry, I quietly tied all my guts into knots
Gave up on trying to make them, I figured it'd take them too long to look up
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And besides, it was undeniably clear to me, I don't know why
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When every other part of life seemed locked behind shutters
C
I knew what worthless dregs we've always been
Lucked out and found my favorite records, lying in wait at the Birmingham mall
The songs that I heard, the occasional book, were the only fun I ever
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Took, and I got on with making myself
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And the trick is just making...
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Yourself, but when they're parking their cars on your chest
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You've still got a view of the summer sky, to make it hurt twice when your restless body
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Caves to its whims, and suddenly struggles to take flight
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Three thousand miles north east,
I left all my friends at the morning bus stop shaking their heads.
What kind of life you dream of, you're allergic to love
Yes I know, but I must say in my own
Defense, it's been undeniably dear to me, I don't know why
When every other part of life seemed locked behind shutters
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I knew the worthless dregs we are, the selfless, loving saints we are,
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The melting, sliding dice we've always been
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