Elegy For Elsabet

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[Verse 1]
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So the fields are stubble, the garden's done
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Where the scary scarecrow stands
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Sees her holding up horizons with her hands
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She's so tired of reading daddy's lips
     A
That essay on a frown
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Watch her memories of human voices drown

[Chorus 1]
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Let horsey bray break between the thunder boom
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Make grasses' swish meet the crickets' ring
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Let every sound consecrate our whispering
                             B
The words that Betta never heard

[Instrumental 1]
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[Verse 2]
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So the back lanes tie the city down
  A
A mess of dirty string
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Winter dies the same way every spring
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As the sky tries on its uniform
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Of turned off TV gray
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And the ways we watched her watch us walk away

[Chorus 2]
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Let every rain clatter down at groaning streets
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Make footsteps    tick, talk to echoed walls
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Let every sound   consecrate our whispering
                             B
The words that Betta never heard

[Instrumental 2]

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[Chorus 3]
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Let every wind  howl and creak the creaking doors
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To rooms that too   much has happened in
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Let every sound consecrate our whispering
                             B
The words that Betta never heard