Intro: E A Bm E|------------------------| | B|------------------------| | G|--9---------------------| | D|-----9------------------| | A|--------12--11----7-----| | E|------------------------| | E So the fields are stubble, the garden is done where A Bm the scary scarecrow stands and sees her holding up horizons with her hands. E|------------------------| | B|------------------------| | G|--9---------------------| | D|-----9------------------| | A|--------12--11----7-----| | E|------------------------| | E A She's so tired of reading Daddy's lips - -that essay Bm on a frown. Watch her memories of human voices drown. Chorus: E A C#/A Bm E A Let horsey bray break between the thunder boom. Make C#/A Bm E A grasses' swish meet the cricket's ring. C#/A Bm E A Let every sound consecrate our whispering words that E Betta never heard. Solo played over: E A Bm Verse: E A So The backlanes tie the city down; a mess of dirty Bm string. Winter dies the same way every spring. E|------------------------| | B|------------------------| | G|--9---------------------| | D|-----9------------------| | A|--------12--11----7-----| | E|------------------------| | E A As the sky tries on its uniform of turned off t.v. Bm grey, and the way we watched her watch us walks away, Chorus: E A C#/A Bm E A let every rain clatter down at groaning streets. Make C#/A Bm E A footsteps tick, talk to echoed walls. C#/A Bm E A Let every sound consecrate our whispering the words that Betta never heard. Whurlitzer and whirly-wind and guitar Solos played over: E A Bm Chorus: A C#/A Bm E A Let every wind howl and creak the creaking doors to C#/A Bm E A rooms that too much has happened in. C#/A Bm E A Let every sound consecrate our whispering the words