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Artist: Be Good Tanyas
Canonical path: /be-good-tanyas/broken-telephone
Related lyric paths: 6
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Broken Telephone
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Curated by Ethan Walker
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Broken Telephone
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I'll be the (G) wind in you leaves
(C) the warmth of the (G) sun
(C) I'm (F) always (G) drawing your colours
(C) I'm (F) always (G) tracing your footsteps
Verse 2
(C) It's a hard world, (G) it's a cold world
(C) I could never (G) say what I mean
(C) I went (F) looking in (G) all the wrong places
(C) there's (F) nothing (G) wrong with you
Chorus
(C) Broken tel(G)ephone
(C) The lines are (G) down
(C) The wires are (G) no longer reaching
(C) Connection's (G) gone
(F) Higher and higher (G) I am taking by
(C) What you've given to me
(F) Higher and higher (G) I am taking by
(C) What you've given to me, what you've given to(F) me (G) (C)
What you've given to(F) me (G) (C)
Repeat Verses 1 and 2
(C) Broken tel(G)ephone
(C) The lines are (G) down
(C) I throw my(G)self at nothing
(C) I throw my(G)self at nothing
(F) Higher and higher (G) I am taking by
(C) What you've given to me
(F) Higher and higher (G) I am taking by
(C) What you've given to me, what you've given to(F) me (G) (C)
What you've given to(F) me (G) (C)
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