Tabs
Capo 3rd fret
Intro:
D F#m Bm G D A
e| 2---0---2---0---2---0---3---3-2-0-3---3---2---2---0---0---0---0---
B| 3---3---2---0---3---3---3---3-3-3-3---3---3---3---2---0---3---2---
G| 2---2---2---2---4---4---4---4-4-4-4---4---2---2---2---2---2---2---
D| 0---0---4---4---4---4---4---4-4-4-5---5---0---0---2---2---2---2---
D F#m Bm
Lover, and now that you've left me I'm glad you're unlovely.
G D A
Because if you could take all the heat in your heart and just hang it from you
D F#m Bm
I wouldn't be able to bear the way you can not love me
G A D
It's much easier of me to make a monster out of you
D F#m Bm
So here I go substituting the glow from your temples
G D A
All our sighs and our trembles and each last letter sent to you.
D F#m Bm
From the cheap little pen of this weak little man, the one singing
G A D
Out his jangling ringing and hopefully stinging attack upon you
D F#m Bm
Yeah so here I go just exploding the hope we'll be speaking
G D A
Someday years from now seeking, friendship and understanding
D F#m Bm
and I hope you get angry and hurt and have the hardest of landings
G A D
and I hope your new man thinks of me when he sees what a number I did on you
D F#m Bm
I grow tired of this song, turn my eyes to the blonde in the bleachers
G D A
She's a lovely young creature. I think she's seeking adventure
D F#m Bm
I think she's ready to see that the world ain't so sweet nor so tender
G A D
I won't break her just bend her, and make her into my new ringer for you
D F#m Bm
I stay in the same comfy town, write the same old songs down I drive the same streets
G D A
Seek the same sense of dull peace. Whisper the same sweet words to the chippies.*
D F#m Bm
Same walk by the road, where the same muddy snow's finally leaving
G A D
But I'll fight off the spring I don't want lovely things I don't want the earth new
* "Chippy" is an old English word for a prostitute and the plural of it is "chippies" like he says in the song, in case anyone didn't know what that line meant.