Intro: |
Gm/D Gm/Bb Gm Gm/Bb |
Ab Gm |
I believe that you heard your master sing |
Ab Gm |
When I was sick in bed |
Ab Gm |
I suppose that he told you everything |
Ab Gm |
That I keep locked away in my head |
Ab Cm |
Your master took you travelling |
Eb F |
Well at least that's what you said |
Bb Dm/A Bb Dm/A |
And now do you come back to bring |
Eb D Gm Gm/Bb |
Your prisoner wine and bread? |
Ab Gm |
You met him at some temple |
Ab Gm |
Where they take your clothes at the door |
Ab Gm |
He was just a numberless man in a chair |
Ab Gm |
Who'd just come back from the war |
Ab Cm |
And you wrap up his tired face in your hair |
Eb F |
And he hands you the apple core |
Bb Dm/A Bb Dm/A |
Then he touches your lips now so suddenly bare |
Eb |
Of all the kisses |
D Gm Gm/Bb |
we put on some time before |
Ab Gm |
And he gave you a German Shepherd to walk |
Ab Gm |
With a collar of leather and nails |
Ab Gm |
And he never once made you explain or talk |
Ab Gm |
About all of the little details |
Ab Cm |
Such as who had a word and who had a rock |
Eb F |
And who had you through the mails |
Bb Dm/A Bb Dm/A |
Now your love is a secret all over the block |
Eb |
And it never stops |
D Gm Gm/Bb |
not even when your master fails |
Ab Gm |
And he took you up in his aeroplane |
Ab Gm |
Which he flew without any hands |
Ab Gm |
And you cruised above the ribbons of rain |
Ab Gm |
That drove the crowd from the stands |
Ab Cm |
Then he killed the lights in a lonely lane |
Eb F |
And an ape with angel glands |
Bb Dm/A Bb Dm/A |
Erased the final wisps of pain |
Eb D Gm Gm/Bb |
With the music of rubber bands |
Ab Gm |
And now I hear your master sing |
Ab Gm |
You kneel for him to come |
Ab Gm |
His body is a golden string |
Ab Gm |
That your body is hanging from |
Ab Cm |
His body is a golden string |
Eb F |
My body has grown numb |
Bb Dm/A Bb Dm/A |
Oh now you hear your master sing |
Eb D Gm Gm/Bb |
Your shirt is all undone |
Ab Gm |
And will you kneel beside this bed |
Ab Gm |
That we polished so long ago |
Ab Gm |
Before your master chose instead |
Ab Gm |
To make my bed of snow? |
Ab Cm |
Your eyes are wild and your knuckles are red |
Eb F |
And you're speaking far too low |
Bb Dm/A Bb Dm/A |
No I can't make out what your master said |
Eb D Gm Gm/Bb |
Before he made you go |
Ab Gm |
Then I think you're playing far too rough |
Ab Gm |
For a lady who's been to the moon |
Ab Gm |
I've lain by this window long enough |
Ab Gm |
To get used to an empty room |
Ab Cm |
And your love is some dust in an old man's cuff |
Eb F |
Who is tapping his foot to a tune |
Bb Dm/A Bb Dm/A |
And your thighs are a ruin, you want too much |
Eb |
Let's say you came back |
D Gm Gm/Bb |
some time too soon |
Ab Gm |
I loved your master perfectly |
Ab Gm |
I taught him all that he knew |
Ab Gm |
He was starving in some deep mystery |
Ab Gm |
Like a man who is sure what is true |
Ab Cm |
And I sent you to him with my guarantee |
Eb F |
I could teach him something new |
Bb Dm/A Bb Dm/A |
And I taught him how you would long for me |
Eb |
No matter what he said, |
D Gm Gm/Bb |
no matter what you'd do |
Bridge: |
Ab Ab Gm/D Ab x4 |
I believe that you heard your master sing... |
Bridge: |
Ab Ab Gm/D Ab x4 |
Ending: |
Gm/D Ab Ab Ab x4 |