Standard Tuning, No Capo

Ab                             Cm
 This time of night I could call you up

         Bbm                          C#
I'd get angry with athletic ease, break common laws in twos and threes

Ab                      Eb
If I die clutching your photograph

                 Bbm                     C#
Don't call me boring, It's just 'cause I like you

Ab                                        Cm
Well, Take me on back Take me on back and take me back

        Bbm
To the place where I could feel your heart

C#
Is this the end or just the start of

Ab                         Eb
Something really, really beautiful

Bbm                      C#
Wrapped up and disguised as something really, really ugly,


Fm
Won't you...


C#   C# C#  Ab             Cm           Fm
Come by and see me, I'm a love letter away

           C#                   Ab             Cm        Cm7
I'd break your name before I'd say, "I really love you, love you, "

C#               Ab                  Cm          Fm
I don't care if you saw, I watched every inch of film

     C#                Ab
Flash across your Roman features,

       Cm         Cm        Fm
And I loved it, loved it; I don't care if


Ab                        Cm
You think I'm eager to shut your eyes, well

     Bbm                            C#
I'm sorry-everybody knows you can't break me with your gutter prose

Ab                     Eb
Would you believe it, she sent me a letter,

      Bbm                             C#
The ring, it nearly weighs her down, she's got another boy, oh boy

Ab                                      Cm
Steady your ears Steady your ears and read my lips

     Bbm                C#
Poetry is not a luxury, it's how I'll break this home

 Ab                  Eb
And when I'm really ill, won't you cradle me?

          Bbm                     C#
Man is not a noble animal, but maybe woman is, remember,

Fm
I heard you...


C# C#   C#   Ab                   Cm        
   Fm
In-side your room , you said, "You never really live
           C#                   A                 Cm     Cm7
Until your back's against the wall, " oh did you really mean it?

C#       Ab                Cm               Fm       
  C#
I never break my gaze, if just to see this scar remain reflected in your eyes
Ab           Cm       Cm
I think it's time to go home

GUITAR SOLO    Use same progression as verse ( Ab Cm Bbm 
 Ab Eb Bbm C# )


     Ab                                                  Cm
Oh, tell me your thoughts, tell me your thoughts on liberty,

              Bbm                    C#
See there's a place where I sink to sleeping

Ab                 Eb
Oh, my vote is as red as my blood

         Bbm                         Dc
Will you join me for another round? I haven't had the chance to speak yet


Fm
God speed...


C# C#    C#  Ab              Em             
 Fm
I  break the law once every week to feel your touch,

         C#              C#              Cm      Cm7
What's a book to you in bed, Do you feel better, older?

Dm                 Ab                 Cm               Fm
This just makes me ill, your name is dripping from my pen

       C#                   Ab
Still you're not around to curse,
      Cm      Cm         Fm
I'll drop the gun now, I'm still under you...

Instrumental

Fm  C# repeated


Ab                             Fm
Marianne, let the ghosts sleep tonight.
Ab                                    Fm
Marianne, let the ghosts sleep, just shut your eyes and burn the past away
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