G        G
She turned her back on the church and put all her faith in me
        C                           Em                    Em     G
At the back of the chapel where I taught her to screw and to blaspheme
                              G                G
We turned our backs to the church, with our trousers around our knees
          C                             Em                 Em   G
While screaming the scriptures she said I was her favourite heresy


Am
In a note I read:
     C
"If you should go blind and deaf
        G                                 Em
I'll cleanse and I'll bathe you and I'll cook for you daily.
        Am                            C
I will take a dry ballpoint pen and trace on your chest
            G                          Em
All of the same conversations that we have now in bed."
                     Am                       C              G
I don't mean to be selfish; but I think I'd sooner just be dead


C            Em            G                         C           Em       G
Behind the tennis court alongside the river, not a single live flower to see
C            Em            G                         C           Em          G
This is the one girl who woke up from all that, and now falls asleep next to me
                  Em                 G            Am                             C
But I swear now, every time that I kiss her, she feels her god breathe on her shoulder
                                        G
It pains me, but I'm sure she's still yours


                       C                Em                          G
She said she wanted a sea burial, not grass and hypodermics to her hips
G                             G
I pruned the ivy from your grandmother's tomb
       C                             Em                                       G  Bb  G  Bb
More tender and careful than the superstitious ripped you from your mothers womb


Am
In a note I wrote:
     C                                G                       Em
"I think too much about the end, but being around it made me feel like I'm coping.
         Am                     C
Now when I view the cemetery I don't see headstones,
           G                                 Em
I see rows of engraved milk teeth, hungry, waiting for me"
                  Am                C                G
And though I am fearful, I think I just crave the relief.


C            Em             G                         C                Em        G
Behind the tennis court, alongside the river, paper flower's still a beautiful thing
C            Em            G                         C          Em           G
This is the one girl who woke up from all that, and now falls asleep next to me
                  Em                G              Am                            C
But I swear now, every time that I kiss her, she feels her god breathe on her shoulder
                                        G
It pains me, but I'm sure she's still yours.
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