Intro and Outro:
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   D (xx0232@1)              G (320003@1)   A (x02220@1) DOh (xx0232@1)where is your inflammatory writ
                        G (320003@1)   A (x02220@1)      DYour (xx0232@1)text that would inside a light be lit

Our music deserving devotion unswerving

Cried do I deserve her with unflagging fervour
                        G (320003@1)        A (x02220@1)  D (xx0232@1)          
Well no we do not if we cannot get over it
    Gm7                                BmBut (x24432@1)what's it mean when suddenly we're spent tell me true
  Gm7                                  BmAmbition (x24432@1)came and reared it's head and went far from you
     Gm7                        
Even molluscs have weddings though solemn and leaden
        BmBut (x24432@1)you dirge for the dead and take no jam on your bread
       D (xx0232@1)                  G (320003@1)                A (x02220@1)   DJust (xx0232@1)a supper of salt and a waltz through your empty bed
    F (133211@1)            AAnd (x02220@1)all at once it came to me
      Bb (x1333x@1)               FAnd (133211@1)I wrote in hunch til 4:30
Cm (x3101x@1)        Gm (355333@1)     A (x02220@1)          DBut (xx0232@1)that vestal light it burns out with the night
   G7 (320001@1)                       DmIn (xx0231@1)spite of all the time that we spent on it
   Bb (x1333x@1)           FOn (133211@1)one bedraggled ghost of a sonnet
      G (320003@1)              DWhile (xx0232@1)outside the wild boars root
Bm (x24432@1)              AWithout (x02220@1)bending a bough underfoot
      C (x32010@1)                     GOh (320003@1)it breaks my heart I don't know how they do it

So don't ask me
    D (xx0232@1)         G (320003@1)   A (x02220@1)  DAnd (xx0232@1)as for my inflammatory writ
                     G (320003@1)    A (x02220@1)       DI (xx0232@1)wrote it and I was not inflamed one bit
  Gm7
Advice from the master derailed that disaster
        BmHe (x24432@1)said hand that pen over to me poetaster
      Gm7
While 'cross the great plains keening lovely and awful
    BmYou (x24432@1)ulate the lost great American novels
   D (xx0232@1)                  G (320003@1)         A (x02220@1)         DAn (xx0232@1)unlawful lot left to stutter and freeze floodlit
                         C (x32010@1)          G (320003@1) A (x02220@1)     D (xx0232@1)
But at least they didn't run to their undying credit