Key: C
Introduction:
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All the rowboats in the paintings
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They keep trying to row away
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And the captains ' worried faces
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Stay contorted and staring at the waves
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They'll keep hanging in their gold frames
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For forever, forever and a day
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All the rowboats in the oil paintings
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They keep trying to row away, row away
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Hear them whispering French and German
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Dutch, Italian, and Latin
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When no one's looking I touch a sculpture
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Marble, cold, and soft as satin
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But the most special are the most lonely
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God, i pity the violins
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In glass coffins they keep coughing
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They've forgotten, forgotten how to sing
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La La La La La
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La La La La La La
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First there's lights out, then there's lock up
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Masterpieces serving maximum sentences
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It's their own fault for being timeless
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There's a price you pay and a consequence
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All the galleries, the museums
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Here's your ticket, welcome to the tombs
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They're just public mausoleums
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The living dead fill every room
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But the most special are the most lonely
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God, i pity the violins
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In glass coffins they keep coughing
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They've forgotten, forgotten how to sing
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They will hang there in their gold frames
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For forever, forever and a day
Cm Gm
All the rowboats in the oil paintings
Abm Fm
They keep trying to row away, row away
Cm Gm
First there's lights out, then there's lock up
Abm Fm
Masterpieces serving maximum sentences
Cm Gm
It's their own fault for being timeless
Abm Fm
There's a price you pay and a consequence
Cm Gm
All the galleries, the museums
Abm Fm
They will stay there forever and a day
Cm Gm
All the rowboats in the oil paintings
Abm Fm
They keep trying to row away, row away...