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     
Who painted his brow with 
    C       Am
thunderclouds
           F                  G
And pulled flowers out of his mouth


C                    F           
Then you grabbed the bouquet and 
C
flew
F               G                
From everything that asked to 
     C
much of you
Continúa después del anuncio
F                    G            
But the future gives birth to both
 C          Am
 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  
Then you shake your fist, you 
   Am
can't resist
F                      G
Does anybody feel your pain?
       F             G            
You're alone and you can't go home
  C
 again


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