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STRAIGHT LINES (Suzanne Vega)
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originally tabbed by schn0170@maroon.tc.umn.edu (Adam Schneider)
modified by Bambi Kill (freezetag@hotmail.com)

CHORDS:

(normal tuning)    or   (dropped-D tuning) 
D7        XX0212        000212
Dsus4,5#  XX0313        000313    (referred to as Ds4)
D7sus9    XX0210        000210    (referred to as Ds9)
Eb        X6888X        111XXX
F         133211        333XXX
Gm        355333        555XXX

Riff 1 = "Ds9 - D7 - Ds4" 
Riff 2 = "D7    Ds9 - D7 - Ds4"

INTRO:
(you must listen to the CD to get the timing)

D7     D7 - Ds4         
Riff 2 (x3)


VERSE:
                Riff 1                     Riff 1
There's a sound           across the alley
              Riff 1                  Riff 1
Of cold metal           touching skin
            Riff 2                        Riff 2 
And you can see        if you look in her window
Riff 2                           Riff 2 
   That she has gone and cut her hair again

            Riff 2       Riff 2 
In straight lines
        Riff 2       Riff 2 
Straaaaaight lines

Eb                                 F
  Those soft golden lights in the morning
Eb                      F
  Are now on her wooden floor
Eb                                      F
  The wind has swept them through the apartment, she won't need them
Gm       F        Eb       D7
Anymore, anymore, anymore


She's cut down on her lovers
Though she still dreams of them at night
She's growing straight lines where once were flowers
She is streamlined, she is taking the shade down from the light

To see the straight lines
Straaaaaight lines

She wants to cut through the circles
That she has lived in before
She wants to finally kill the delusions, she won't need them
Anymore, anymore, anymore

There's a sound across the alley
Of cold metal too close to the bone
And you can see if you look in her window
The face of a woman finally alone

Behind straight lines
Straaaaaight lines
Behind straight lines
Straaaaaight lines

[End on D7.]