Key: B
Introduction:
C
I am fond of those things too
G C
Some of them so much
C
Give away my whole life to 'em
G C
Give away my bed
C
Come about on some strange couch
G C
Just wishing that I were dead
C
Ashley hitched from Houston
G C
She was raped in Abilene
C
Beaten with a bottle
G C
As the night laid mute her screams
C
When she finally reached here
G C
She was happy as can be
C
There's a bright light shining in the big blue sky
G C
And I never know what it means
Am Em F C
And I can't help singing dirges on the ides of every month
Am Em
Heaven is a chandelier
F C
But don't all look up at once
C G C
I go down to the park to give away my cigarettes
C G C
I go down to the park where I sit and wait for death
C G C
But I can't wait forever with the breezes and the bums
C G C
The soldiers came to shoot us down but Jesus jammed the guns
C G C
And when the bottles all were empty, when he called us to our feet
C G C
He promised us salvation and some real nice things to eat
C G C
We were good then 'til the morning when the daylight did us in
C G C
Oh the past it picked our pretty little pockets, it gets thirsty for revenge
Am Em F C
And I can't help singing dirges on the ides of every month
Am Em F C
Heaven is a chandelier, but don't all look up at once
Am Em F C
Oh I can't help singing dirges on the ides of every month
Am Em F C
Heaven is a chandelier, but don't all look up at once