Key: B
Introduction:
G Em7 C/9 G Em7 C/9
Clearing webs from a hovel a blistered hand on the handle of a shovel
G Em7
I've been digging too deep, I always do
G Em7 C/9 G Em7 C/9
I see my face on the surface I look a lot like Narcissus
G Em7
A dark abyss of an emptiness standing on the edge of a drowning blue
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I look behind my ears for the green, and even my sweat smells clean
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Glare off the white hurts my eyes Gotta get out of
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bed, get a hammer and a nail, learn how to use my hands Not just my
G D C/9 Am Em7
head, I'll think myself into jail Now I know a refuge never grows from a chin
C A C/9
in a hand in a thoughtful pose Gotta tend the earth if you want a rose
I had a lot of good intentions sit around for fifty years and then