Intro: C F Am G F
C F
Ceiling tiles are falling down, selling secrets between now
Am G F
And defeated pasts on last defense
C F
The walls can’t keep the warm in here, this busted house of cans of beer
Am G F
Aluminum, some plaster and some fear
C F Am
There are her bones, there are the fossils
G F
There near the sewer pipe
C F Am
There, between floors, between wars
G F
There on a two-by-four
Em F
Harmonic notes still humming from her lyre
C G F
Just set my little soul on fire
F Am
Oh oh oh, oh oh, oh
F Am
Oh oh oh, oh oh, oh
F Am
In the shape of my latest sin
F Am
In the wake of soon moving - on
F Am
Though this house is crumbling down
G F
She’s whispering her last words now
F Am
Did he love her there on the floor?
(When he pressed his mark in that knotted board, pressed an oath in that knotted board)
F Am
Just two names, one shape, tangled minor chords
(A heart around their sweet accord, wrapped around their love and stored)
F Am
The first day, got away, then so many more
(A decade past, and then a score)
G C Am G
Now winter falls, decay and dark creating art showing the world just where you really are
F C G C
Oh sweet Louise, since eighty-three
F C G
While paneling and pyramids fall down
F C G C
Oh, sweet Louise, now I believe
F C G
In rafters in this beat-up, blue-neck town,
F G C
In turning tides, in me, in hidden vows.
Break
C F Am G F
C F Am
There are her bones, there are the fossils
G F G
There near the sewer pi--ipe
C F Am
There are her bones, there are the fossils
G F
Unfinished song I complete
C F Am
There on his throne, here in their castle
G F
My Pygmalion ivory
C F Am
Here on my own, like this home
G F
The landlord collects his fee
C F Am
I’m growing old, I'm so alone,
Am
These ceiling tiles are falling down
G F
I’m seeing what I’ve got to see
F Am
Oh oh oh, oh oh, oh
F Am
Oh oh oh, oh oh, oh
F Am
Oh oh oh, oh oh,
F C G C
Oh sweet Louise, since eighty-three
F C G
While paneling and pyramids fall down
F C G C
Oh, sweet Louise, now I believe
F C G
In rafters in a rugged Worcester town,
F G C
In turning tides, in me, in hidden vows.