Dm                       A
My brother finds comfort in calculators
     Dm                   A
He assigns every number a name
     Dm                         A
He believes that they add up to certainty
            Dm                        A
And he is upset with fractions that remain
       Dm                     A
So I examine the maps with my eyes and at best
      Dm                           A
I can trace with my finger all the way
        Dm                       A
To that town where she went an attempt to forget
    Dm             A           Dm
The cracks and the lines of my face

[Verse 2]
   Dm                       A
So Jetsabel cleaned out the closets for me
        Dm                     A
And she piled the boxes in the hall
         Dm                         A
Tomorrow when she wakes she'll come take them away
         Dm                  A
And they will never haunt me again
          Dm                           A
But it is still hard to sleep with the moon's heavy beams
  Dm                      A
I run barefoot to the backyard
        Dm                        A
Just to freeze in my place by the rod iron gate
     Dm          A          Dm
Too ashamed and afraid to advance

[Interlude]
Dm C Ab Ab7 E7
Dm C Ab Ab7 E7 A7 Dm

[Verse 3]
        Dm                                  A
Today I walked through the snow and found a field of headstones
             Dm                          A
They were in rows like the weeks on calendars
           Dm                        A
Where each box is a day that you can ever escape
        Dm             A         Dm
Without pills for your poisonous sleep
           Dm                       A
Now, these memories leak from these faucets that weep
    Dm                              A
Hot tears splash against the shower floor
      Dm                       A
And I stand in the steam as if inside a dream
      Dm                   A
I can see her again by the sink

[Verse 4]
       Dm                                   A
From behind the bathroom mirror she pulls a thermometer
    Dm                      A
And placed it underneath my tounge
                      Dm                        A
She said, "You are as pale as a sheet, you look awful my sweet
    Dm                    A
Lay down and wait for the sun"
     Dm                                 A
So I stayed in that bed, she brought me water and read
     Dm                      A
Each night from a volume out loud
              Dm                            A
She whispered soft poetry, her favorite was Anabel Lee
          Dm                                 A
And those words, like these drugs, comforted me

[Verse 5]
                    Dm                               A
But the clocks kept waving their hands and she could not understand
       Dm                      A
Why my temperature would never drop
                 Dm                                 A
And although she promised with tears that she would always be here
        Dm             A        Dm
I heard truth like the sounding sea
            Dm                 A
I said, "My Arienette, oh, how soon you'll forget
     Dm                       A
This house will never be your home
             Dm                         A
And you will leave in the fall when the trees become graves
          Dm        A           Dm
And their color lie dead in the grass"

[Chorus]
A              Db7
Gold and green torture me
         Gbm
Like the lies, like the lies, like the lies
    E7
I believe too easily
      A                      Db7
Oh my Jetsabel, look at this hell that I have made
       Gbm
If you want maybe drop by sometime
         E7
Put some flowers on my grave
                    A               Db7
So that I will look beautiful in my silent sepulchur
             Gbm
Yeah, that's fine, throw those dresses away
             E7             A
I don't want anything of hers

[Outro]
Dm                 A
For the moon never shines
Dm                  A
And the stars never rise
Dm                  A
Without bringing me dreams
Dm                    N.C.
Haunted by the ghosts of those bright eyes