Tall Heights - Rafters

^CCeiling tiles are falling down, ^Fselling secrets between now ^AmAnd defeated pasts on last de^Gfense ^F The ^Cwalls can’t keep the warm in here, this b^Fusted house of cans of beer A^Amluminum, some plaster and some ^Gfear ^F

^CThere are her bo^Fnes, there are the f^Amossils There near the ^Gsewer ^Fpipe ^CThere, between f^Floors, between w^Amars There on a t^Gwo-by-f^Four Har^Emmonic notes still humming from her l^Fyre Just ^Cset my little ^Gsoul on f^Fire

^FOh oh oh, oh ^Amoh, oh ^FOh oh oh, oh ^Amoh, oh

^F In the shape of my latest ^Amsin ^F In the wake of soon movi^Amng - on ^F Though this house is crumbling d^Amown She’s ^Gwhispering her last words ^Fnow

^F Did he love her there on the f^Amloor? (When he pressed his mark in that knotted board, pressed an oath in that knotted board) ^F Just two names, one shape, tangled m^Aminor chords (A heart around their sweet accord, wrapped around their love and stored) ^F The first day, got away, then so ^Ammany more (A decade past, and then a score) Now ^Gwinter f^Calls, de^Amcay and dark creating art showing the ^Gworld just where you really are

Oh ^Fsweet Lou^Cise, since ^Geighty-^Cthree While ^Fpaneling^C and pyramids fall ^Gdown Oh, ^Fsweet Lou^Cise, now ^GI bel^Cieve In ^Frafters in thi^Cs beat-up, blue-neck t^Gown, In ^Fturning tides, ^Gin me, in hidden ^Cvows.

^CThere are her bo^Fnes, there are the f^Amossils There near the ^Gsewer ^Fpi--^Gipe

^CThere are her bo^Fnes, there are the f^Amossils Unfinished song I^G compl^Fete ^CThere on his thr^Fone, here in their c^Amastle My Pygmalion ^Givor^Fy ^CHere on my ^Fown, like this h^Amome The landlord col^Glects his ^Ffee ^CI’m growing o^Fld, I'm so a^Amlone, ^AmThese ceiling tiles are falling down I’m ^Gseeing what I’ve ^Fgot to see

^FOh oh oh, oh ^Amoh, oh ^FOh oh oh, oh ^Amoh, oh

^FOh oh oh, oh ^Amoh, Oh ^Fsweet Lou^Cise, since ^Geighty-^Cthree While ^Fpaneling^C and pyramids fall ^Gdown Oh, ^Fsweet Lou^Cise, now ^GI bel^Cieve In ^Frafters in a ^Crugged Worcester ^Gtown, In ^Fturning tides, ^Gin me, in hidden ^Cvows.