Carnival Lights chords
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Capo 2
G
Well these old carnival lights
Em
Won't let her eyes sleep tonight
G Em
She's sitting on the top Ferris wheel car
C Em
Thinking it ain't such a long way down
C Em C Em B7
Failure's such a long cold fall
G Em G Em
G
Well this life, these grounds are her sin
Em
Jump on a merry-go-round that don't even spin
G Em
Waiting on the world to turn circles round her eyes
C Em C Em C Em
But it don't play her out tonight it never does anytime
B7
So she stays lonely
C Em G G/F#Em
Well her poisonous and medicine bottle
C Em GG/F# Em
Filled with nothing but her own short comings
C Em G G/F#Em
She leans her head back and she puts them down and they taste alright
C D G
She's just trying to stay conscious tonight
G Em G Em
G
I saw her on a Sunday
Em
I never saw her again they said she's fading away
G Em
She's a ghost haunting a house that ain't even hers
G
She's locked her self up in her room
Em
She's moanin the devil well she's howling at the moon
G Em
And they think that she could be saved by her mama's voice
C Em C Em C Em
But it don't play around tonight it never does anytime
B7
So she stays lonely
C Em GG/F#Em
Well her poisonous and medicine bottles
C Em G G/F#Em
Filled with nothing but her own shortcomings
C Em G G/F# Em
She leans her head back she puts them down they taste alright
C D G
She's just trying to stay conscious tonight
G Em G Em
C9 F#m G
Red and blue lights and the sirens through her shutters make the shadows dance
G/F# Em
like demons through her room
C9 D G
Her eyes are rolling up her night is ending soon
G
Well these old carnival lights
Em
Won't let her eyes sleep tonight
G G
She's sitting on a top Ferris wheel car
B7
She's going down
C Em G G/F#Em
Well her poisonous and medicine bottle
C Em G G/F#Em
Filled with nothing but her own short comings
C Em G G/F#Em
She leans her head back she puts them down and they taste alright
C D G
She's just trying to stay conscious tonight