Tono: B
Bb
And the first one tore a picture
Of a dead and hanging man
F
And when I put my arms around him
Felt the blushing blood run through my cheeks
Bb
And an eerieness surrounded
When his tongue began to speak
F
And he said, "Oh, boy, you are so pretty,
Enough to wrap tight in rice-paper string"
Bb
And when I finally kissed him
The whole world began to ring
F
Lost like a bell that's tipping over
With two cracks along both sides
Bb
And I knew the world was over
So I took a look outside
F
And watched the fires that were reaching
Up to the weather vanes and the tops of trees
Bb
And the waiting scene and the Sunday dream -
F
Bb
They're all waiting here for me
Bb
Deli markets with their flower stands
Their pretty girls and their burning men
F
Hanging out on the hooks next to the window displays
And I took out my tongue, twice removed from my face
Bb
Across a bridge and across the mountains
Threw a nickel in the fountain
F
To save my soul from all these troubled times
And all the drugs that I don't have the guts to take to soothe my mind
Bb
So I'm always sober
Always aching
F
And wasted gas-station attendants
Attending to their jobs
Bb
And a nice drive in the country
Finds a nice cliff to drop off
F
Oh, when this life just gets so grating
All the grittiness of life
Bb
But don't take those pills your boyfriend gave you
F
Bb
F
Bb
You're too wonderful to die
Bb
And the last one tore a picture
From the pornographic page
F
And it's a lie that you've been given
That just hurts you every day
Bb
So why should I lie here naked
When it's just too far away
F
From anything we could call loving -
Any love worth living for?
Bb
So I'll sleep out in the gutter
You can sleep here on the floor
F
And when I wake up in the morning
I won't forget to lock the door
Bb
'Cause with a match that's mean and some gasoline
F
Bb
You won't see me anymore
You've Passed (thanks to Liam Fletcher)
B
G
D
X2
A
E
B
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D
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E
F
The lady is dying
F
She bends back like a wave
F
As her spirit is climbing
D#5
Through the hospital wall and away
1st Interlude
B
G
D
A
E
B
G
D
A
E
F
And I wanted to hold you
F
As you made your escape
F
But now I should have told you
D#5
When your eyes were alive and awake
F
Always in life we all must make this mistake
G#
F
And so I go it alone
G#
F
And the pressure is great
G#
F
I hold on to my own
D#5
Oh please oh don't go away
2nd Interlude
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G
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E
F
I wanted to know you
F
Before you started to fade
F
But I gave everything to
D#5
A lie and a farce and a fake
F
Always in life we all must make this mistake
G#
F
And so I go it alone
G#
F
And the pressure is great
G#
F
I hold on to my own
D#5
Oh please oh don't go away
F
I'd like to see you when all of these angry days blow away
Someone Is Waiting
F
Someone is waiting
C
To swallow all the halos out of you
F
As your face blows through my windows
C
Sending pieces flying all around the room
F
And I love you, and I want to
C
Shoot all the superheroes from your skies
F
Watch them bleeding from your ceiling
C
As their empty anger falls out from their eyes
Bb
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Bb
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All alone...
A Baby For Pree
C
Blistering Pree, all smiling and swollen
F
Makes babies to breathe, with their hearts hanging open
C
All over the sheets, as soft as beets in some brown
F
Dresser drawer
C
And with bees in her breath and the rest of her ringing, they'll
F
Sting through her chest with a force hard and beating till
C
Wonderfully wet she will get until she's soaked inside
F
E
Her clothes, and there is no sorry to be sorry for
F
For a roll around the floor
E
Some afternoon so sound and soft
F
It made her swallow all her sweat
E
With every bit of breath she coughed
F
And when the day it came to pour
G
All her babies all across the bathroom floor
C
She will be swimming in them all forever more
Marching Theme
C
All I perceive is wasted and broken
F
Silvery streams, sacred when spoken
C
F
Slam into me and into the ditch of debris
C
And you smoke in the park and sleep in the greenery
F
Everyone barks and they are all still believing
C
F
To tear out your heart would send all your secrets to me
E
But I let you down
F
E
And swollen and small is where you'll find me now
F
With that silver stripping off
E
From my tongue you're tearing out
F
G
And you'll never hear me talk
C
Your teeth believe that teeth are for tearing
F
Tear into me and the scent of you sweating
C
Smells good to me
F
As long as we keep in our clothes
C
And out in the dark the world is still rolling
F
Kids in their cars, cigarette smoking
C
F
And all that they are just reeks with the sweetest belief
E
But I let you down
F
E
And swollen and small is where you'll find me now
F
With that silver stripping off
E
My tongue you're tearing out
F
G
C
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C
F
And you'll never hear me talk
C
And all I could want is silver and spinning
F
Out from your arms and into the pretty
C
F
Pit of your heart, so simply and softly we'd flow
E
But I let you down