Standard Tuning





            G5
Farewell to Ed
           E5
For Ed is dead
             C5    
The careless boy
        D5  
Laid to rest
         G5
A velvet floor
             E5
To place his head
         C5  
An empty bed
         D5  
A wooden chest
   

             

      E5           D5     
Still beautiful in death
             C5       G5  
The moisture fogs my breath
            E5       D5
Two hundred lowered eyes
           C5       G5
A hundred mute goodbyes




        E5                              D5
I never thought your threats would come good
          E5                    D5
You never did what you said you would




             G5
Your mum and dad
             E5
They look so old
            C5
All huddled up
        D5
In inky cloth
        G5
I?m not surprised
             E5
This room is cold
           C5
It?s empty too
               D5
It?s stinks of loss




           E5                 D5
I sat with Dan and drank some beer
          C5                 G5
We hadn?t spoken since last year
           E5              D5
I took his hand, led him upstairs
         C5             G5
Silently drew his body near




           E5                 D5
I couldn?t see, missed you so much 
              C5             G5
Missed you so much I had to fuck
             E5                      D5
Between your sheets all childhood clean
            C5                 G5
The pillows painted with your dreams




         E5               D5
I didn?t want to stop and think
                  E5              D5
How I should have said a thousand things, yeah but hey




         G5
Like we agreed
          E5
I will be brave
            C5
I will pour whisky
        D5
On your grave
          G5
Smoke cigarettes
            E5 
Amongst the stones
             C5
Sprinkle champagne
          D5
Upon your bones




   E5                    D5
If burial restricts your view
               C5            G5
I?ll bring the city here to you
              E5            D5
I?ll pack the river and the clock
        C5             G5
Wrap it into a picnic box




     E5                      G5
With golden bows and crystal mugs
           C5                   D5
My dancing heels will feel the mud
            E5               G5
We?ll disco boogie until the dawn
                C5              D5
I?ll teach this village how to mourn




(Ahhs)
E5 D5 C5 G5 (I think?)




          G5
My living room
          E5
In future time
              C5
You?re just a face
         D5
Above my fire
          G5
A funeral sound
          E5
A distant chime
              C5
I?ll think of this
           D5
And I will cry



             
             E5      G5
Perhaps I?ll drop my task
             C5         D5
The sound of shattered glass
             E5     G5
Thought I forgot at last
            C5          D5
Some things just never pass




        E5
Easy to say
        D5
Hard to believe
                C5
There?ll come a day
             G5
That I don?t grieve
          E5
Until the time
        D5
My body leaves
       C5
I will regret
               G5
That you don?t breath