Death Cab For Cutie - I Was A Kaleidoscope Acoustic Tab

              I WAS A KALEIDOSCOPE (Acoustic) – Death Cab for Cutie

Verse 1:

  
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       I put on my overcoat and walked into winter, my teeth chattered rhythms


  
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 And they were grouped in 2s or 3s, like a morse code message was sent from me


  
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   to me and cars on slippery slopes were stuck, people pushing through
   their mittens as I was beginning


  
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          to feel it soaking through my shoes, getting colder with every


  
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   step I took to your apartment

Musical Interlude (play twice):

  
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    dear.


  
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Verse 2:

  
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      And I was a kaleidoscope the snow on my lenses distorting the image


  
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            of what was only one of you and I didn't know which one


  
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      to    address  as all   your lips


  
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   moved and this is when I forget to breathe


  
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   and all the things I scripted they sound unfounded.


  
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   And it's that look that you're giving me


  
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    that tells me exactly what you are thinking,       this ain't working


  
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   anymore.


  
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Bridge:

  
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       They got their mothers worked into a panic


  
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       sledding down hills into oncoming traffic


  
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    and parents layered clothes until the children couldn't move them


  
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   and left them outside until their noses were blue


  
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   and I got             left there


  
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   too.

Last verse:

  
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       I put on my overcoat and walked into winter, my teeth chattered rhythms


  
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 And they were grouped in 2s or 3s, like a morse code message


  
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   was sent from me to me.