Mary Cifra

[Verse 1]
D
Burn up with the water
G                     D
The floods are on the plains
D
The planets in a rose
A
Who knows what they contain?
D
And my brain is like an orchestra
G           D
Playing on, insane
         A                                G       D
Will you love me like you loved me in the January rain?
D
 
[Verse 2]
D
Mom and Dad and violins
G              D
Somber country silence
 
The needle stopped the kicking
     A
The clothes pins on the floor
      D
And my heart is playing hide and seek
G                 D
Wait and count to four
         A                                  G             D
Will you love me like you loved me and I'll never ask for more
 
 
[Chorus]
G
What did you tell me Mary
 
When you were there so sweet and very
D
Full of field and stars
 
You carried all of time
        A
Oh and, heavens, when you looked at me
 
Your eyes were like machinery
     D
Your hands were making artifacts in the corner of my mind
 
G
Monastery monochrome
 
Boom balloon machine and oh
D
Diamond rings and gutter bones
 
Marching up the mountain
G
With our aching planning
 
High and smiling
 
Cheap drink
 
Dark and violent
D
Full of butterflies
 
The violent tenderness
 
The sweet asylum
    A
The clay you find is fortified
 
We felt unfocused fade the line
    D
The sugar rush
 
The constant hush
 
The pushing of the water gush
    G
The marching band
 
When April ran
    D
May June bugs fly and
        A
Push your gin Jacob
 
With the tired wiry brandy look
G                             D
Here we go round Mary in your famous story book
 
 
[Verse 3]
D
We overcome the sirens
   G                   D
We look both left and right
                            A
And I can feel the numbness accompany my plight
    D
And I know that someday soon I'll see you
     G                 D
But now you're out of sight
            A                              G        D
And you'll kiss me like you used to in the January night
 
 
[Chorus]
G
What did you tell me Mary
 
When you were there so sweet and very
D
Full of field and stars
 
You carried all of time
        A
Oh and, heavens, when you looked at me
 
Your eyes were like machinery
     D
Your hands were making artifacts in the corner of my mind
 
G
Monastery monochrome
 
Boom balloon machine and oh
D
Diamond rings and gutter bones
 
Marching up the mountain
         G
With our aching planning
 
High and smiling
 
Cheap drink
 
Dark and violent
D
Full of butterflies
 
The violent tenderness
 
The sweet asylum
    A
The clay you find is fortified
 
We felt unfocused fade the line
    D
The sugar rush
 
The constant hush
 
The pushing of the water gush
    G
The marching band
 
When April ran
    D
May June bugs fly and
        A
Push your gin Jacob
 
With the tired wiry brandy look
G                             D
Here we go round Mary in your famous story book
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