Intro: Em Bsus Em Bsus



Em                         D               ~
  I was alone my heart was cold it was a stone,

              Gmaj7                               B
  my soul was lonely like a stone - there was no moss.

Em                            D                ~
  And when I danced I danced alone but then I did not dance

           Gmaj7                       B
  because I *was* alone.  So I did not dance.


Em                              D      _~_            Gmaj7
  I shuffled through life invisible to all the happy couples who would mock

                  B
  me with their merry laughter – “ha-ha-ha”.

Em                              D                          C
  The only sound I heard in my lonely silent world was the rusty hammer of my

        B                           Em
  heart nailing at the hatred in my soul.


B - D - Em (quickly)


[ synth strings ]


       D      Gmaj7
  But then you came,

                         Em     Dmmaj7  Am7
  and my life was turned upside down.

Am7                               D7
  You showed me the beauty of the things that I had never seen.

          G                               [ Embellish with Gmaj7, G/D  and G ]
  Like a snowflake that melts on the eyelash of a startled deer.

         Em            Amaj7            Am7
  Or the painting of a dog that wears a deerstalker[1] and

   D7                 Em                 Dmmaj7
  smokes a pipe that made you laugh so heartily,

 Am7                    D7          G   Gmaj7  G/D
  but I had previously thought was rubbish.


         Em                 Dmmaj7         Am7
  Or the duck that lands so clumsily on a frozen pond in winter

           D7
  but the intoxicating power of our love transforms this simple act into an

     G                                       Gmaj7
  anthropomorphic drama where Mr. Duck’s embarrassed and the other ducks are

    G           Gmaj7  G/D
  laughing (quack quack quack quack quack).



B/              Em
  AND THEN YOU LEFT!            [Flamenco Style]

D                            C                                B
  And I have died a thousand deaths and I will die a thousand more!

Em                         D          C                 B
  I thought you were an angel - you turned out to be a whore!

Em                              D                                  C         B
  And everything has turned to dust! Everything is infected with the plague!

B                                Em
  Why did you have to sleep with Craig?

D                        C                   B
  "Oh he's so sensitive, he's got a tattoo."

        C                                                   B
  Yeah, carving your name with a compass in my forehead was not enough for you!


  C*   B   C*   B


[ Flutes ]


Em                                      D
  The snow flake on the eye of the dear has turned to

              C                  B
  puss that oozes from an open wound.

C                                  B
  The deer now blind it stumbles into a ravine.

Em                            D
  The duck lies shredded in a pancake,

C                               B
  soaking in the hoisin of your lies.

Em                                   D
  The dog has moved from the pipe to 60 cigarettes a day,

       C                           Em        B                    Em         D
  and coughs away his life in the cold neon research lab of your betrayal.

          C   D    Em
  Of your betrayal...(fade)