Key: E minor
Verse 1
into a piece of velvet
And the plastic painters'
daring dance of death
We'll journey very far into the surface
Those not used to diving hold your breath
The lady of my dream paints scars of velvet on
the mirror of the words she chose to speak.
And there the heavy hands that
hang suspended broke the
Easter undertaker's laughter breaks.
she stared like a saint undone.
B
Em
I offered her my cap
and tiny shovel
Saying surely this will hide
you from the sun
I've tamed it from a banker in depression
He was a memory from 1931
She butchers up her meat
in careful quarters
For she knows the price
at stake is very high
And she builds her worn
cliché into a climax
For she knows that she will barely get by
She stares like a saint undone
C
B
C
And we cannot find the sun
Em
F
C
It wasn't free, it's not for sale
F
Em
telling of my tale
Her gentle voice cried quietly to thank me
C
Em
It's nothing, the hol low answer said
I let her ride the railroad line to nowhere
And I left the lost survivor on her bed
Bm
B
Crying painter, look, it's morning
She stared like a saint undone
C
B
And we cannot find the sun
C
Dm
Lady, you returned my dream
C
Dm
Oh, a dream ends in a scream
Good night
F
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