Brandi Carlile - The Mother: chords

G#
Welcome to the end of being alone inside your mind
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You're tethered to another and you're worried
all the time
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You always knew the melody but you never heard
    A#m7   D#/A#  C#
it rhyme
        G#
She is fair and she is quiet, Lord,
she doesn't look like me
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She made me love the morning, she's a holiday at sea
    D#
The New York streets are as busy as they
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always used to be
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But I am the mother of Evangeline

The first things that she took from me were
selfishness and sleep
She broke a thousand heirlooms I was never meant
to keep
She filled my life with color, canceled plans,
and trashed my car
But none of that was ever who we are
Outside of my windows are the mountains
and the snow
I hold you while you're sleeping and
I wish that I could go
All my rowdy friends are out accomplishing
their dreams
But I am the mother of Evangeline

              D#
They've still got their morning paper
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and their coffee and their time
          D#
And they still enjoy their evenings with
      C#              G#
the skeptics and the wine, oh
    C7
But all the wonders I have seen,
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I will see a second time
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From inside of the ages through your eyes

You are not an accident where no one thought
it through
The world has stood against us, made us mean
to fight for you
And when we chose your name we knew that
you'd fight the power too
You're nothing short of magical and beautiful to me
Oh, I'll never hit the big time without you
So they can keep their treasure and their
ties to the machine
'Cause I am the mother of Evangeline