The Arsonist

Intro : C, F, C, F

C                     F         C
First you burned your own house down
F                       G      C
Then you sold the ashes to the clown
F                G         C       Am
Who painted his brow with thunderclouds
           F                  G
And pulled flowers out of his mouth


C                    F           C
Then you grabbed the bouquet and flew
F               G                     C
From everything that asked to much of you
F                    G             C          Am
But the future gives birth to both sorrow and mirth
         F                      G
It don't matter what you say or do


C                       F    C
And now, you pray for a dry canteen
           F       G            C
So you can dare an empty sky to rain
         F          G         C     Am
Then you shake your fist, you can't resist
F                      G
Does anybody feel your pain?
       F             G              C
You're alone and you can't go home again


F             G                    C       F
They look for you in the leaves of magazines,
C               F       C               F               G
In picaresque stories, in penny arcade portraits of Lauren Bacall
C             G                    C         F
While I look for you in the dye of canceled stamps,
C               F               C               F        G
In the panic of sirens, in the vanishing kite strings of airplane exhaust
F               G       C
But nobody can catch the arsonist