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Capo 5
C Cmaj7 Am Am7/G F G F G
C Cmaj7 Am Am7/G
If you want to see and be seen, then be seen.
F G
Your dress is dark red
C Cmaj7 Am Am7/G
and your opening eyes are bright green. Make a scene,
F G F G
but don't lie on the bed, laid out like you're dead,
Am G
because honey, you're murdering me.
C Cmaj7 Am Am7/G F G F G
Be a little sheep learning who'll shear and who'll feed.
The hands come and they leave.
Be hands holding a knife. Be a being on two feet,
with his heart trembling, butchering for a king
he believes in though he's never seen.
C Cmaj7 Am Am7/G F G F G 2x
F Em
Be the princess in that stone tower,
Am G Am
crying for that handsome butcher's plight
F G
(and, as some princess might,
F G
she still calls him a knight.)
But the best thing for you would be queen, so be queen.
You're all that I need.
Though I know that it never can be, I'd be pleased
to post your decrees, to fall at your knees,
Am F G
to name all your streets and to sit down and weep
when you're carried back through them and set down to sleep,
and to lie by your side for sublime centuries
Am F G C
(until we crumble to dust when we're crushed by a single sunbeam).
Outro:
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