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Standard tuning, Capo on 1

The little riff you can hear in the background is done on the high e string.
Relative to capo:

e|---4h2h0---4h2h0---

E E

E         E
Big city, wide corner, 
B            E
New flowers, cold comfort. 
E            E
56 farenheit early in the morning. 
B                E
Buses passing by black smoke in their wake. 
A                E
Big surprises, a lot of big surprises 
B              E
Bones ringing, running away from what Freud said. 

E E B E

E            E
Same morning, world breathing, 
B
Far, far from home
E
Big ringing in the bones
E                      E
Whose bones are these? God please.
B                 E
Feel the pumping, feel the fresh blood pump inside
A                  E
City's living, the city's truly living 
B                      E
What's the difference? Running away from what freud said.

E E B E  x2