tono:
Bb (con acordes en la forma de G)
Capotraste en 3ª casa
Capo on 3rd Fret
Em7C9
From the top of the flight
Em7C9
Of the wide white stairs
Em7C9
Through the rest of my life
Em7C9
Do you wait for me there?
Em7C9
There's a bell in my ears
Em7C9
There's the wide white roar
Em7C9
Drop a bell down the stairs
Em7C9
Hear it fall forever mor
Em7C9
Hear it fall forevermore
G/DEm7G/DEm7
Drop a bell off of the dock
G/DEm7
Blot it out in the sea
G/DEm7
Drowning mute as a rock
G/DEm7
sounding mutiny
G/D
There's a light in the wings, hits this system of strings,
Em7
from the side while they swing;
See the wires, the wires, the wires.
G/D
And the articulation in our elbows and knees
Em7
Makes us buckle and we couple in endless increase
As the audience admires
G/D
And the little white dove
Made with love, made with love
Em7
Made with glue and a glove and some pliers
G/D
Swings a low sickle arc from its perch in the dark
Em7
Settle down, settle down my desire
D
And the moment I slept
CG
I was swept up in a terrible tremor
DC
Though no longer bereft, how I shook
Em7
And i couldn't remember
D
And then the furthermost shake
Am
Drove a murdering stake in
CEm7G
And cleft me right down through my center
D
And I shouldn't say so
CEm7
But I know that it was then or never
G/DEm7
Push me back into a tree
G/DEm7
Bind my buttons with salt
G/DEm7
Fill my long ears with bees
G/D
Braying 'please, please, please,
Em7
Oh you ought not!
No you ought not!'
G/D
And then the system of strings tugs on the tip of my wings
Em7
Cut from cardboard and old magazines
Makes me warble and rise like a sparrow.
G/D
And in the place where I stood
There is a circle of wood
Em7
A quarter to which you chop and you stack in your barrow
G/D
And it is terribly good
To carry water and chop wood
Em7
Streaked with soot, heavy booted and wild-eyed
G/D
As I crash through the rafters
And the ropes and the pulleys trail after
Em7
And the holiest, holiest belfry burns sky high
D
And then a slow lip of fire
C9G
Moves across the prairie with precision
DC9
While somewhere with your pliers and glue
Em7
You make your first incision
DA
And in a moment of almost unbearable vision
C9Em7G
Doubled over with the hunger of lions
D
'Hold me close', cooed the dove
C9Em7
Who was stuffed now with sawdust and diamonds
Em7DGA4CG
I wanted to say 'why the long face?'
A4C9G
Sparrow perch and play songs of long face
A4C9G
Burro buck and bray songs of long face
AmC9
Sings 'i will swallow your sadness and eat your cold clay
G
Just to lift your long face
A4C9
And though it may be madness, I will take to the grave
G
Your precious long face
A4C9
& though our bones they may break & our souls separate
G
Why the long face?
A4C9
And though our bodies recoil from the grip of the soil
G
Why the long face?
G/DEm7
In the trough of the waves
G/DEm7
Which are pawing like dogs
G/DEm7
Pitch we, pale-faced and grave
G/DEm7
As I write in my log.
G/DEm7
Then I hear a noise from the hull
G/DEm7
Seven days out to sea
G/DEm7
And it is the damnable bell
G/D
And it tolls, I believe, that it tolls
Em7
It tolls for me!
And it tolls for me!
G/D
And though my wrists and my waist
Seem so easy to break
Em7
Still my dear I would've walked you to the edge of the water
G/D
And they will recognize all the lines of your face
Em7
In the face of the daughter, of the daughter, of my daughter
G/D
And darling we will be fine
But what was yours and mine
Em7
Appears to be a sandcastle that the gibbering wave takes
G/D
But if it's all just the same
Then say my name, say my name,
Em7
in the morning so that i know when the wave breaks
D
I wasn't born of a whistle
CG
Or milked from a thistle at twilight
D
No, i was all horns and thorns
CEm7
Sprung out fully formed, knock-kneed and upright
DA4
So enough of this terror we deserve to know light
CEm7G
And grow evermore lighter and lighter
D
You would have seen me through
CEm7
But I could not undo that desire
DCEm7
Oh-oh, oh-oh-oh desire
DCEm7
Oh-oh, oh-oh-oh desire
DCEm7
Oh-oh, oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh desire
Em7C9
From the top of the flight
Em7C9
Of the wide white stairs
Em7C9
Through the rest of my life
Em7C9
Do you wait for me there?