Eugene Chords by Sufjan Stevens

[Start]

[Verse]
E                   B             
■ Light struck from the lemon tree
A         B         F#  
■ What if I'd never seen
E                     B     
Hysterical light from Eugene
E B            F#
■ Lemon yogurt ■ 
B                    D#m       
Remember I pulled at your shirt
                         E        
I dropped the ashtray on the floor
                 B          
I just wanted to be near you
E B                               
■ Emerald Park wonders never cease
A Bsus4   E                F#  
■ The man who taught me to swim
            E            B         
He couldn't quite say my first name
E        B      F#     B                    D#m    
■ Like a father he led Community water upon my head
                 D#m   
And he called me Subaru
G#m E               B          
And ■ now I want to be near you
                          E    
Since I was old enough to speak
B                 F#   
I've said it with alarm
B D#m       G#m   F#          E          
■ Some part of me was lost in your sleeve
      B            F#        
Where you hid your cigarettes
              E     
No I'll never forget
               B          
I just want to be near you


[Chorus]
E                      B           
■ Still I pray to what I cannot see
                   B                
In the sprinkler I mark the evidence
E              B    
Known from the start
E B                 F#        
■ From the bed near your death
            G#m                  B   
And all the machines that made a mess
D#m          E          
Far away the falcon flew
              B          
Now I want to be near you
E B                   A          
■ What's left is only bittersweet
E               B      
For the rest of my life
F#        E           B        
Admitting the best is behind me


[Outro]
E B                 F#    
■ Now I'm drunk and afraid
B                          D#m 
Wishing the world would go away
                            E    
What's the point of singing songs
                 B            
If they'll never even hear you


[End]