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Introduction: A F# A F# C#
A
Waxen nun in her bed
C# A
"I had to do it!" She said
C#m B
If you let a child
Be a child, you ain't
C#m
Doing her no favors in the end
A
Which brings us to her portrait
The photograph
C#
Of the orphan they ripped
Dm
In half
B
And left what was left
In the forest a hell
E
Of which there is
No name
F#m A
Most love comes around
F#m
Second hand
A
It's a starving age, better take
Take what you can and
D
Unforgivably, if so, I bet you know
Of some traditional wretch you left
F#m B
To catch her death out in the snow
A
So unhappy child
Flash me your
C#m F#
Rottweiler smile
Don't let no
B
Modern kind of love bring you down
There's plenty of
C#m C#
Decent tail in this town
A
Did you grow up in a trailer park
Did you grow up
C#m
In an immaculate and humorless place
F#m A
Where the holy spirit, when you came crawling in
E
Turned away from his face
E
There are some parents
Whose children long for divorce
A E
There are some parents
Whose children long for divorce
D E
There are some parents
A
Whose children long for divorce
E
Now that you've buried your head
A
In this time
D A
Where dust sharp and fine
E
Rises from the mouth
D
Of the diamond mine
C#m B A
Where hungry pickaxes tear at the rind
E
And cut men up from the inside
B
Oh gun toting urchin
A
What do you need
C# B
Oh it's nothing
C#
She ain't coming
A
Back to me
Bm
Marrow knowing orphan
F#m
What can I bring
Bm
Oh it's nothing
F#m
He already took
Everything