Riff 1 e|------------------| B|-2--2-----0-------| G|-2-----2-----2----| D|-2--------------4-| A|-0----------------| E|------------------| Riff 2 e|---------------| B|---------------| G|---------------| D|---------------| A|--0--2--4------| E|---------------| Verse Into this strange elastic world Pont us kindly gave up a pearl His eternal stone and mud But ain't she lovely bone and blood Born of the sea A thousand miles away from me A court of angels Wards of the sun A future forming A curse undone Under our softly burning lamp she takes her time Riff 1 Telling stories of our possible lives And love is the ink in the well when her body writes Riff 2 I've been selfish and full of pride And she knows deep down there's a little child But I've got a good side to me as well And it's that she loves in spite of everything else Break: Verse A song in the tree has distracted her mind Some other curious form of life Has made it's presence to her known And she coos so gently soft and low Her shining face in a million reflections in tiny raindrops that fall in a veil Over our city like notes from above It overwhelms me! just aint that tough Riff 1 It's not that the darkness can't touch our lives I know it will, in time Riff 1 But she's no ordinary valentine And now when the sun goes down she sheds a darling light. Riff 2 I've been selfish and full of pride And she knows deep down there's a little child But I've got a good side to me as well And it's that she loves in spite of everything else Outro:
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