Verse 1: F Burn up with the water F The floods are on the plains F The planets in a rose F Who knows what they contain? F And my brain is like an orchestra F Playing on, insane F Will you love me like you loved me in the January rain? Interlude: F Verse 2: F Mom and Dad and violins Bb F Somber country silence The needle stopped the kicking C The clothes pins on the floor F And my heart is playing hide and seek Bb F Wait and count to four C Bb F Will you love me like you loved me and I'll never ask for more Chorus: Bb What did you tell me Mary When you were there so sweet and very F Full of field and stars You carried all of time C Oh and, heavens, when you looked at me Your eyes were like machinery F Your hands were making artifacts in the corner of my mind Bb Monastery monochrome Boom balloon machine and oh F Diamond rings and gutter bones Marching up the mountain Bb With our aching planning High and smiling Cheap drink Dark and violent F Full of butterflies The violent tenderness The sweet asylum C The clay you find is fortified We felt unfocused fade the line F The sugar rush The constant hush The pushing of the water gush Bb The marching band When April ran F May June bugs fly and C Push your gin Jacob With the tired wiry brandy look Bb F Here we go round Mary in your famous story book Verse 3: F We overcome the sirens Bb F We look both left and right C And I can feel the numbness accompany my plight F And I know that someday soon I'll see you Bb F But now you're out of sight C Bb F And you'll kiss me like you used to in the January night Chorus: Bb What did you tell me Mary When you were there so sweet and very F Full of field and stars You carried all of time C Oh and, heavens, when you looked at me Your eyes were like machinery F Your hands were making artifacts in the corner of my mind Bb Monastery monochrome Boom balloon machine and oh F Diamond rings and gutter bones Marching up the mountain Bb With our aching planning High and smiling Cheap drink Dark and violent F Full of butterflies The violent tenderness The sweet asylum C The clay you find is fortified We felt unfocused fade the line F The sugar rush The constant hush The pushing of the water gush Bb The marching band When April ran F May June bugs fly and C Push your gin Jacob With the tired wiry brandy look Bb F Here we go round Mary in your famous story book
