Intro: D5 , G5 , D5 , A5 , D5

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Oh where is your inflammatory writ
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Your text that would inside a light be lit

Our music deserving devotion unswerving

Cried do I deserve her with unflagging fervour
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Well no we do not if we cannot get over it
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But what?s it mean when suddenly we?re spent tell me true
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Ambition came and reared it?s head and went far from you
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Even molluscs have weddings though solemn and leaden
        B5
But you dirge for the dead and take no jam on your bread
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Just a supper of salt and a waltz through your empty bed
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And all at once it came to me
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And I wrote in hunch til 4:30y
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But that vestal light it burns out with the night
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In spite of all the time that we spent on it
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On one bedraggled ghost of a sonnet
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While outside the wild boars root
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Without bending a bough underfoot
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Oh it breaks my heart I don?t know how they do it

So don?t ask me
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And as for my inflammatory writ
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I wrote it and I was not inflamed one bit
  G5
Advice from the master derailed that disaster
        B5
He said hand that pen over to me poetaster
      G5
While ?cross the great plains keening lovely and awful
    B5
You ulate the lost great American novels
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An unlawful lot left to stutter and freeze floodlit
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But at least they didn?t run to their undying credit