C F C G When you finally scaled the wall C F Am G Thinking you had heard the siren singing C F C Am What you really heard was a broken bird C G Am Making out like it's a dove C F C G When you stole the soldier's car C F Am G Everybody knew what you were thinking C F C Am Ivory towers and lover's flowers C G Am But no one thought you were a fool Em Am F You never stopped to notice all Em Am F The stolen clothes stacked in the hall Em Am G C From the others who scaled the wall just to G Am C Find themselves fun off the road C F C Am C Em Am F And again: C F C G ... When you showed up at the farm Visions of the summer flying past you The foxes had torn up The mother and her pups And the well was full of flies When you walked down to the pond Searching for the lover guiding you It had been filled in with rusty nails and then You finally knew that you were lost No one thought you were a fool Even though everyone knew What you wrote was the same Just a different name Of those who escaped before you.
