Rafters

C  F  Am  G  F

C                             
Ceiling tiles are falling down, 
  F
selling secrets between now
Am                           G   
And defeated pasts on last 
    F
defense
    C                           
The walls can’t keep the warm in 
             F
here, this busted house of cans of 
beer
 Am                             G 
Aluminum, some plaster and some 
    F
fear

C               F                
There are her bones, there are 
   Am
the fossils
               G     F
There near the sewer pipe
C               F               Am
There, between floors, between wars
            G      F
There on a two-by-four
   Em                            
Harmonic notes still humming from 
      F
her lyre
     C             G        F
Just set my little soul on fire

F            Am
Oh oh oh, oh oh,    oh
F            Am
Oh oh oh, oh oh,    oh

F                           Am
  In the shape of my latest sin
F                         Am
  In the wake of soon moving - on
F                              
  Though this house is crumbling 
   Am
down
      G                         F
She’s whispering her last words now

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F                            
  Did he love her there on the 
   Am
floor?
                       (When he 
pressed his mark in that knotted 
board, pressed an oath in that 
knotted board)
F                                 
  Just two names, one shape, 
    Am
tangled minor chords
                                    
 (A heart around their sweet accord,
 wrapped around their love and 
stored)
F                                  
  The first day, got away, then so 
Am
many more
                                    
           (A decade past, and then 
a score)
    G       C       Am           
Now winter falls, decay and dark 
                         G
creating art showing the world just 
where you really are

   F        C          G      C
Oh sweet Louise, since eighty-three
      F       C                  
While paneling and pyramids fall 
G
down
    F        C        G    C
Oh, sweet Louise, now I believe
   F             C        
In rafters in this beat-up, 
             G
blue-neck town,
   F              G                
In turning tides, in me, in hidden 
C
vows.


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C  F  Am  G  F

C               F                
There are her bones, there are 
   Am
the fossils
               G     F   G
There near the sewer pi--ipe

C               F                
There are her bones, there are 
   Am
the fossils
                 G     F
Unfinished song I complete
C               F                
There on his throne, here in 
   Am
their castle
             G   F
My Pygmalion ivory
C          F               Am
Here on my own, like this home
                G         F
The landlord collects his fee
C            F           Am
I’m growing old, I'm so alone,
Am
These ceiling tiles are falling down
    G                F
I’m seeing what I’ve got to see

F            Am
Oh oh oh, oh oh,    oh
F            Am
Oh oh oh, oh oh,    oh

F            Am
Oh oh oh, oh oh,

   F        C          G      C
Oh sweet Louise, since eighty-three
      F       C                  
While paneling and pyramids fall 
G
down
    F        C        G    C
Oh, sweet Louise, now I believe
   F            C                
In rafters in a rugged Worcester 
G
town,
   F              G                
In turning tides, in me, in hidden 
C
vows.