Pyramid

Em G Em


Em               D            
Tell me Margaret, what is coming 
    Bm         D
down this river?
G              D              C 
You’ve been watching so much 
            Em
longer now than I.
Am          Em                   
Do you know Margaret, just what will
D
 this day deliver,
                 G            C   
Does it work out tooth for tooth 
         Em
and eye for eye?

Em            D               Am
They started stacking up the 
    Em                 Am
stones the very day that you were 
born.
Em                 D    Am      
No matter how you grew, they 
          Em
would tower above you.
           D                     
You could change your name, move 
Am              Em     Am      C
all the way to sunny California.
            Am                   C
But when you start your life anew,
                  Am
 does that long shadow follow you?

           Em                      
Who was it Margaret, that chose to 
 G         D               
resurrect you here for me, in 
G             C       D    C
scattered lines of poetry,
      Em
This distant, wistful girl I see 
reflected in your eyes?
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  C          Em             D    
Forgive me Margaret, all the ways
 I am mistaken, all the liberties 
      C
I’ve taken,
C                              
I’ve projected you in costumes I 
                             Em
don’t think were quite your size.

              D               
Now here I’m climbing up these 
  Am               Em
stones a hundred years from where 
you were born,
               D   Am             
Looking for a song that could take
    Em
 me to you.
         D                       
I have traced these roads, drove 
Am                Em    
past your home in Burbank, 
D  C
California,
    Am              C             
But you were not inside you’ve 
       D
found a better place to hide.

             Am         C         
And tell me Margaret, when I’m 
     Em
gone, what will I want,
       C          D         
To be left at the bottom of a 
garbage bin, or dusted off and 
                  C
pulled up onto stage?
          Em                  
Will it please me when someone 
           G          D       C
lights a candle and says my name?
            C               D     
Will I say leave me in my pyramid,
       Em                D
 blow out the flame and close the 
lid,
        C                          
This story’s done, why don’t we 
       Am
turn the page?


[Interlude]

Em D Am C G Em D Am Em D Am

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Em                 D       Em
At the bottom of a garbage bin x12
Em          D         C
Leave me in my pyramid x2
          Em                  
Will it please me when someone 
  D                          C
lights a candle and says my name? x2

Em D C x2
          Em                  
Will it please me when someone 
  D                          C
lights a candle and says my name? x4
Em          D         C
Leave me in my pyramid x2
          Em                  
Will it please me when someone 
             D               C
lights a candle and says my name?