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Capo III - Chords relative to capo
MIm RE LA x4
MIm RE LA MIm RE LA
I was just bony hands as cold as a winter pole
MIm RE LA MIm RE LA
you held a warm stone out new flowing blood to hold
MIm RE LA MIm RE LA
oh what a contrast you were to the brutes in the halls
MIm RE LA MIm RE LA
my timid young fingers held a decent animal
SOL RE
Over the ramparts you tossed
SOL RE
the scent of your skin and some foreign flowers
SOL RE FA
tied to a brick sweet as a song
DO RE
the years have been short but the days were long
MIm RE LA MIm RE LA
Cool of a temperate breeze from dark skies to wet grass
MIm RE LA MIm RE LA
we fell in a field it seems now a thousand summers passed
MIm RE LA MIm RE LA
when our kite lines first crossed we tied them into knots
MIm RE LA MIm RE LA
and to finally fly apart we had to cut them off
SOL RE
Since then it's been a book
SOL
you read in reverse
RE
so you understand less as the pages turn
SOL RE FA
or a movie so crass and awkwardly cast
DO RE
that even I could be the star
DO RE FA SOL
I dont look back much as a rule
DO RE FA SOL
and all this way before murder is cool
DO RE SOL DO
but your memory is here and i'd like you to stay
RE
a warm light on a winter's day
MIm RE LA x6
SOL RE
Over the ramparts you tossed
SOL RE
the scent of your skin and some foreign flowers
SOL RE FA
tied to brick sweet as a song
DO FA
the years have been short but the days go slowly by
DO
to loose kites falling from the sky
FA DO RE
drawn to the ground and an end to flight
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