If You Leave It Alone chords

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If I was the kind who was inclined to cry 
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I'd cry for the strings I cut loose 
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& I'd cry for the bridges I burned 
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Just to make myself a little room to move 

Now I'm full up with lessons learned 
& the days that are made just to throw them away 
Now I'm closing all the curtains 
I'm switching off the phone 
Now I took down all your cameras 
& I open the fridge 

& hung from the hinges with the eggs & garlic 
The cheese & tomatoes 
The milk & the beer 
The strings & the bridges of a brand new year 
The first tear was a note 
& the note made a song 

& I hung the song from the hinges of the door 
Then I carried on just the same as before 
& nothing got different 
& nothing got changed 
But a new tune gets sweeter & simpler with age 

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If you leave it alone 
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If you leave it alone 
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If you leave it alone 
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It gets sweeter & simpler & softer & slower 
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& younger the longer you leave it alone 

So I wrote you a note & the note read: 
"There's so much good silence in the emptiest heads 
I tipped my mouth towards pillowless beds 
& poured out my brains & my guts into ears 

& for each dear black sentence a sheer lack of tears 
No I don't want those words back, I don't miss those years 
But if I could hold your knees again under my chin again 
If I could kiss your nose us both brittle & thin again 

Maybe then baby then I could get light again 
Maybe then baby then I could get light again 
If I could kiss your toes, kiss your ribs, kiss your fingers, 
Well, maybe then baby then I could get light 

& then I would be light 
I would be liked 
I would be liked" 

Ah, but if you leave it alone 
If you leave it alone 
If you leave it alone 

It gets sweeter & simpler & softer & slower 
& younger the longer you leave it alone 

Leave it alone 
Leave it alone 
Leave it alone 
Leave it alone