Danny Callahan
By Conor Oberst
[Intro]
G#m Gdim G#m Gdim F#
[Verse 1]
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Green world, lovely chloroform
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Front porch in the thunderstorm
E C#m B
Controlled chaos, confused energy
[Verse 2]
B
Stop reading the weather charts
C#m
Stop counting the playing cards
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There's no system, there's no guarantees
[Chorus]
E F# B
That the love you feel and carry inside can be passed
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But you try, I know you do, you still talk to your plants
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Ask "How are you getting on alone?"
[Verse 3]
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Some wander the wilderness
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Some drink cosmopolitans
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Some cull science, some glean astral planes
[Verse 4]
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I can't tell where the canvas stops
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Homesick as an astronaut
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Just keep drifting, but still can't explain
[Chorus]
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How the love we feel we carry inside can be passed
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See a brother in the gutter, you reach out your hand
C#m F#
Ask "How are you getting on alone?"
[Interlude]
B C#m E C#m B
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[Verse 5]
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What gauge measures miracles?
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Whose heartbeat's electrical?
E C#m B
We feign sickness with our modern joy
[Verse 6]
B
But even Western medicine
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It couldn't save Danny Callahan
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Bad bone marrow, a bald little boy
[Chorus]
E F# B
But the love he feels he carries inside can be passed
E F# G#m
He lay still, his mother kissed him goodbye, said come back
C#m F#
Where are you going to alone?
C#m F#
Where are you going all alone?
[Interlude]
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[Outro]
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