Key: G minor
Verse 1
Gm
Cm
My sanctum
thicket that surrounds me now
Bb
So dense grows the swampland that sometimes
it would take me up to 30 minutes
I had fashioned
Though I had been there hundred
Bb
Gm
s and hundreds of times
Verse 2
of white sheet
Cm
Ab
Bright like bush ghosts that hun
Boxes of nails and tacks
and tapers from the church
My Bibles
and bird skulls
Verse 3
Gm
Shells
and nests and some
Cm
Gm
threaded through the walls
Bb
Gm
The tiny blue glass bottles of scented
Cm
water
Gm
And with these, I kept my life trophies My God
Verse 4
Bb
tokens, the parts of her left be
The whore's hair,
that I had delivered
up against her
Gm
Cm
Sheared her , cast her out
Gm
Bb
The kinder graph and the instructions
Cm
she had written on the back of it in verse
Verse 5
Gm
Bb
of her fastened to the walls and ceiling of the grotto
lay in my shell
Bb
And the ten pearl buttons leaving their evanescent
The stroke of hair,
Bb
Cm
A trembling scarlet drop
the bittersweet sip
Gm
Oh, the lifetimes lost in queer congress,
holed up in that dark retreat
Verse 6
A
A felled tree trunk, carved down the middle by a
Made a kind of a pallet where
I would lie stretched out
Cm
Encapsulated by two
walls of umbrage
That twisted about a few clapboards,
Verse 7
I could sit up with a
full foot's grace
too
Who would come in my later years
at the foot of my cocoon
Cm
Bb
Sometimes I heard thousands of
Verse 8
Cm
voices,
Whispering things to me as I
lay there all alone
Cm
Bb
All my feelings of fear and of
anger and of despair
Bb
leave me
And I would feel most powerful
Bb
Most powerful
Verse 9
first
Then later he taught me
how to deal with the others
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TunerE A D G B E
ChordsGm Cm Bb Ab A
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