C                          Am
In the middle of a mission I met Esther in the kitchen
G                                      Am
Drinking something blue it looked like Windex
C
She could shake but couldn't really sing, Sharpened like a feral thing
G                                   Am
Helped me with my part when I lost interest

    E                                F
She said her name was Esther I said baby that sounds biblical
       C                             G
Ain't she the one that came up after Vashti?
C
Yeah and then some other stuff
    Am
At some point there I fell in love
G                                   Am
Then she heard a song she liked and lost me

[Chorus]

    C                       Am
The party ended suddenly, suddenly it's over
      F
That left me an Esther all alone and getting older
     C                       Am
All alone and getting older smoking in the street
     F
Now everything is Esther and it's been that way all week

C Am G Am  C    G Am

[Verse 2]

C                                      Am
The times that we were powerless were times that I remember best
      G                                  Am
When it first came on it felt just like a blanket
C
Once we had a little bit we pretty much just wasted it
G                                           Am
Traded in our tickets for drinks and little trinkets

    E                                F
The scene back in the city was the opposite of freedom
C                                         G
We were always so damn broke it was this whole dependent fallacy
C                            Am
They started shooting so the songs of the future
G                             Am
Esther always wants it how it used to be

[Chorus]

C                                          Am
Songs all ran together and the kids ran outta liquor
F
That's when me and Esther started staring at each other
          C                    Am
Started staring at each other feeling pretty sweet
     F
Now everything is Esther it's been that way all week
     C                          Am
The parties fall to pieces the endings are so heavy
F
Feels like no one's watching when we're this deep in the valley
            C                              Am
When we're this deep in the valley you can see so many stars
     F
When Esther told her story we were sitting in the car

[Bridge]

Am                                F
   She said her folks were never close
                        C
They had me 'cause they had to
                G
No one named me Esther
                      F
That came up a little later
                 C
It was after some detective
                           G
Came around here with some questions
                Em
I went out to Colorado
                  F
Was mostly in the motels
                      C
Started living pretty reckless
                       G
Started calling myself Esther
                                  Em      E
I just felt like someone different

[Instrumental]
C   Am   F x2

[Chorus]

C                                  Am
Felt like someone different and I never could forgive
        F
All the movies in our heads about the lives we wanna live
     C                          Am
The lives we wanna live are all free of pain and fear
    F
Now Esther's getting cigarettes and me I'm buying beer


C                           Am
Felt like someone different felt like someone else
    F
She almost died in Denver, she did it to herself
    C                       Am
She did it herself, there's only her to blame
   F
Of course I call her Esther I don't know her other name

      C                    Am
She's never going home her folks were never close
   F
We mostly watch the TV crack the windows when we smoke
    C                   Am
Her aura is amazing her room is kind of bleak
      F
I met Esther at a party got together for a week