[Intro]
Am Em Bm7 / C G D / (x2)
[Verse]
Am Em Bm7
Are we to speak, first day of the week
C G D
Stumbling words at the bar
Am Em Bm7
Beauty blue eyes, my order of fries
C G D
Long island kindness and wine
Am Em Bm7
Beloved of John, I get it all wrong
C G D
I read you for some kind of poem
Am Em Bm7
Covered in lines, the fossils I find
C G D
Have they no life of their own?
[Chorus]
Em Bm7
So can we pretend sweetly
C G D
Before the mystery ends?
C G
I am a man with a heart that offends
C G D
With its lonely and greedy demands
Em D G C G D
There’s only a shadow of me; in a manner of speaking I'm dead
[Verse]
Am Em Bm7
Such a waste, your beautiful face
C G D
Stumbling carpet arise
Am Em Bm7
Go follow your gem, your white feathered friend
C G D
Icarus, point to the sun
Am Em Bm7
If history speaks of two baby teeth
C G D
I’m painting the hills blue and red
Am Em Bm7
They said beware, Lord hear my prayer
C G D
I’ve wasted my throes on your head
[Chorus]
Em Bm7
So can we be friends, sweetly
C G D
Before the mystery ends?
C G
I love you more than the world can contain
C G D
In its lonely and ramshackle head
Em D G C G D
There’s only a shadow of me; in a manner of speaking I'm dead
Interlude:
Am Em Bm7 / C G D / (x2)
[Verse]
Am Em
I’m holding my breath
Bm7
My tongue on your chest
C G D
What can be said of my heart?
Am Em Bm7
If history speaks, the kiss on my cheek
C G D
Where there remains but a mark
Am Em Bm7
Beloved my John, so I’ll carry on
C G D
Counting my cards down to one
Am Em Bm7
And when I am dead, come visit my bed
C G D
My fossil is bright in the sun
[Chorus]
Em Bm7
So can we contend, peacefully
C G D
Before my history ends?
C G
Jesus I need you, be near, come shield me
C G D
From fossils that fall on my head
Em D G C G D
There’s only a shadow of me; in a manner of speaking I'm dead
