Key: B major•
Intro 1
B
G#m
D#m
C#
G#
G#m
E
C#
D#m
F#
C#
G#
G#m
E
B
D#m
C#
Leopards prowl the studios
Verse 1
G#
B
of the Duc de Berry's great chateau
E
C#
hearses Beauty's rape
D#m
C#
Lewis Carroll marks his diary
G#
B
with a small white stone
G#m
E
As Kuniyoshi Kaneko prepares
C#
to paint
D#m
C#
Listen to the shells my
Verse 2
darling,
G#
B
what you hear is not the sea
E
C#
malicious human hearts
D#m
F#
C#
Adults who don't wish to know the
G#
B
Duc de Berry's great chateau
E
C#
hood and of art
F#m
C#m
We who paint or photograph
Verse 3
G#
C#m
to stop your dying in its path
D#m
B
Bdim
manence of spring
B
G#m
Can't stop the prattlers
C#m
D#
The rattlesnakes who, rattling,
D#m
A#
B
see ugliness in every living thing
G#m
A#
G#m
See ugliness in every living thing
D#m
C#
The calculated insolence
Verse 4
of
G#
B
little girls in sailor suits
G#m
E
Whose faces seem to say more
D#m
C#
Appetites and ornaments for the
G#
B
libertine in all of us
G#m
E
C#
From the cabinet of
Verse 5
C#
G#
Follow to the studio where Alice
G#m
E
B
Of tousle- headed naked gypsy girls
D#m
A#m
The Reverend Charles L. Dodgson from
G#
B
the darkness of his camera
G#m
E
Preserves her for himself
D#m
C#
Children torn by cruel desires,
Verse 6
D#m
G#
B
the handiwork of murderers
G#m
E
Who hack their little bodies
B
C#
to the bone
G#
B
astonishingly fit and well
C#
Verse 7
F#m
C#m
We who paint or photograph to
G#
C#m
stop your dying in its path
G#m
D#m
And fix you in the permanence
B
of spring
G#m
A#
Can't stop the prattlers prattling
C#m
D#
The rattlesnakes who, rat tling,
D#m
A#
B
see ugliness in every living thing
G#m
A#
D#m
In every lovely living thing
F#
G#
B
G#m
E
C#
Verse 8
F#m
C#m
A looking glass is not a world
G#
C#m
A painted girl is not a girl
G#m
D#m
B
In games there can be no forbidden things
A#
C#
In life remain considerate,
G#
B
in art the Devil's advocate
G#m
C#
D#
Why deny that Pe gasus has wings
G#m
D#m
In life remain considerate,
A#
C#m
D#
in art the Devil in carnate
D#m
A#
A#sus4
B
Why deny the siren when it sings?
G#m
A#
In games there must be no
forbidden things
D#m
F#
Interlude 1
G#
B
G#m
E
C#
D#m
C#
F#
G#
B
G#m
E
C#
Verse 9
C#
D#m
F#
D#m
G#
B
So watch the wall my darling while the gentlemen go by
G#m
E
And mark your diary with
D#m
C#
G#
Little hearts of marzipan and lac
G#m
E
C#
In the cabinet
D#m
C#
of Kuniyoshi Kaneko
G#
B
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