Key: B major•
Verse 1
B
She's a mollusk,
A seamstress,
A princess,
A priestess,
A negress,
She knows her position
Verse 2
E
She's a swallow,
A willow,
A cello,
A pillow,
A bow
Verse 3
And also a physician
F#
E
She takes your eyes
And mends your head
F#
E
She draws the wine
And breaks the bread
B
She has no lies to tell you
And no truths to sell you
A
She's a girl,
F#
B
She's almost a woman
Verse 4
G
D
A
And zero she flies as the morning sighs
E
B
Spreads her wings like a seagull
G
From the mountain he watches her,
D
A
Biding his time
E
But his eyes are the eyes
B
of an eagle
A
B
Verse 5
He's a hawthorn,
A raven,
A scarecrow,
A haven
For moon-blessed thought
thought and opinion
E
He will laugh like the fountains,
The bones of the mountains
Lie deep in his forest religion
Verse 6
F#
E
You will call his name when evening falls
F#
E
And the ground sets hard
and the night wind calls
B
You will feed him and heed him,
At times you will need him
A
F#
B
Say you were almost his woman
Verse 7
G
D
A
And zero she flies as the morning sighs
E
B
Spreads her wings like a seagull
G
From the mountain he watches her,
D
A
Biding his time
E
But his eyes are the eyes
B
A
B
of an eagle
In the shuddering mad red
blood-let sunset
sunset
A tired man is leaving his cover
E
And the soft eyes of zero
Are cut by the sounds
Of the vanishing feet of her lover
Verse 8
F#
E
And the door slams shut
And the air grows tight
F#
E
And her throat is gripped
By the hands of night
B
And all that is left
Is the clock on the shelf
A
F#
B
As it ticks one day into another
Verse 9
G
D
A
And zero she sighs as the morning dies
E
B
With the broken wings of a seagull
G
From the mountain he watches her,
D
A
sensing his time
E
B
A
B
But his eyes are the eyes of an eagle
At the pall of the day
the man of the mountain
Is nearing the end of his travel
E
And the fence is down
On the westland bounds
And a footfall pounds in the gravel
Verse 10
F#
E
Comes a knock three times
And the air grows still
F#
E
As he steps inside from
the sudden chill
B
And the moment is caught
in the net of the night
A
F#
B
For the coming of dawn to unravel
Verse 11
G
D
A
And zero she flies as the morning sighs
E
B
Spreads her wings like a seagull
G
From the mountain he's coming,
D
A
Judging his time
E
B
And his eyes are the eyes of an eagle
G
Oh
Verse 12
D
A
zero she flies as the morning dies
E
B
Spreads her wings like a seagull
G
From her window he watches her,
D
A
A man in his time
E
D
B
But his eyes are the eyes of an eagle
Outro 1
A
B
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TunerE A D G B E
ChordsB E F# A G...
B
E
F#
A
G
D
Capo: 4
Transpose: 0
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