Tabbed by: Robert McMillan


Tuning: Standard


Riff 1

e | ------------------ | 
B | -2--2-----0------- | 
G | -2-----2-----2---- | 
D | -2--------------4- | 
A | -0---------------- | 
E | ------------------ | 


Riff 2

e | --------------- | 
B | --------------- | 
G | --------------- | 
D | --------------- | 
A | --0--2--4------ | 
E | --------------- | 


Verse
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A5         C5               A5
Into this strange elastic world
          C5               A5
Pont us kindly gave up a pearl
      D5               G5
His eternal stone and mud
                     D5    D5  A5
But ain't she lovely bone and blood

            C5      A5
Born of the sea
           E5    G5         A5
A thousand miles away from me
           D5
A court of angels
             G5
Wards of the sun

A future forming
  D5     D5   A5
A curse undone


Chorus
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  Riff 1

F#5        A5             F#5                A5
Under our softly burning lamp she takes her time

  Riff 1

F#5      A5             E5
Telling stories of our possible lives
    G5                                    E5    A5
And love is the ink in the well when her body writes

  Riff 2

D5          A5                   D5
I've been selfish and full of pride
              A5                          D5
And she knows deep down there's a little child
               A5                  F#5
But I've got a good side to me as well
                  E5                 D5                 D5 D5
And it's that she loves in spite of everything else

Break
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A5 C5 A5 E5 G5

Verse
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A5             C5                       A5
A song in the tree has distracted her mind
             C5                   A5
Some other curious form of life
              D5               G5
Has made it's presence to her known
                       D5    D5   A5
And she coos so gently soft and low

            C5                   A5
Her shining face in a million reflections
        E5             G5         A5
in tiny raindrops that fall in a veil
          D5                    G5
Over our city like notes from above
                       D5    D5    A5
It overwhelms me! just aint that tough

Chorus
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  Riff 1

F#5                A5                       F#5
It's not that the darkness can't touch our lives
                   A5
I know it will, in time

  Riff 1

F#5          A5        E5
But she's no ordinary valentine
     G5
And now when the sun goes down
            E5       A5
she sheds a darling light.

  Riff 2


D5          A5                   D5
I've been selfish and full of pride
              A5                          D5
And she knows deep down there's a little child
               A5                  F#5
But I've got a good side to me as well
                  E5                 D5                D5 D5
And it's that she loves in spite of everything else

Outro
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A5 C5 A5 G5 D5 A5