10,000 Maniacs - Jezebel

^BmTo think of my ^Atask is chilling ^BmTo know i was ^Acarefully building the ^GMask i was ^Awearing ^GFor two years, ^Aswearing i'd ^Bmtear it off

^BmI've sat in the ^Adark explaining ^Bm To my^Aself that i'm straining to ^GHard for fee^Alings ^GI ought to find^A easi^Bmly

Called myself ^Ajezebel I don't ^Gmaj7believe ^D/F#Before i say that the ^Gadd9vows we've made ^Asus4Weigh like a stone in my ^Gadd9heart ^D/F#Family is ^Gadd9family, ^Asus4don't let this tear us a^Bmpart

^BmYou lie there, an ^Ainnocent baby ^BmI feel like the ^Athief who is raiding your ^GHome ^{A G}Entering and breaking and ^Ataking in every ^Bmroom ^BmI know your ^Afeelings are tender ^Bm In^Aside you the embers still ^GGlow but i'm a ^Ashadow, ^Gi'm only a ^Abed of blackened ^Bmcoal

Call myself j^Aezebel for wanting to ^Gmaj7leave [Verse] ^D/F#I'm not saying ^Gadd9i'm replacing ^Asus4love for some other ^Gadd9word ^D/F#To describe the ^Gadd9sacred tie that ^Asus4bound me to ^Gadd9you ^D/F#I'm just saying ^Gadd9we've mistaken o^Asus4ne for thousands of ^Gadd9word and for ^D/F#That mistake I've ^Gadd9caused you such pain that^Asus4 i damn that ^Bmword!

I've ^Gno more ways to ^Bmhide That i'm a ^Gdesola^Ate and hollow place in^Gside

^D/F#I'm not saying ^Gadd9i'm replacing ^Asus4love for some other ^Gadd9word ^D/F#To describe the ^Gadd9sacred tie that ^Asus4bound me to ^Gadd9you ^D/F#I'm not saying ^Gadd9love's a plaything ^Asus4No, it's a powerful ^Gadd9word ^D/F#Inspired by ^Gadd9strong desire to ^Asus4bind myself to ^Gadd9you ^D/F#How i wish that we ^Gadd9never had tried^{Asus4 Gadd9} to be ^D/F#Man and his wife to ^Gadd9weave our lives into a ^Asus4blindfold Over ^Gadd9both our eyes