When The Poet Sings chords by L A Salami

Chords with lyrics

In the verse he always repeats C majorC and A minorAm like this:

Strumming:
    C majorC                 A minorAm
    v ^ ^ v ^   v ^   v ^   v ^ ^ v ^   v ^   v ^
e|------0--0--0--0--0-----0--0-----0--0-----0--0--0--0--0-----0--0-----0--0---|
BB|------1--1--1--1--1-----1--1-----1--1-----1--1--1--1--1-----1--1-----1--1---|
G+G|------0--0--0--0--0-----0--0-----0--0-----2--2--2--2--2-----2--2-----2--2---|
D MajorD|------2--2--2--2--2-----2--2-----2--2-----2--2--2--2--2-----2--2-----2--2---|
A augmentedA|--3---3--3--3--3--3--3--3--3--2--3--3--0--0--0--0--0--0--0--0--0--2--0--0---|
E MajorE|----------------------------------------------------------------------------|

He often hammers on the D MajorD String when changing to the C majorC and somtimes plays this little variation:

  A minorAm
e|---------------------|
BB|---------------------|
G+G|---------------------|
D MajorD|-----------0---------|
A augmentedA|--0--3--2-----0------|
E MajorE|---------------------|

[Verse]
 C majorC                A minorAm
upon the autumn streets when the city is away
C majorC              A minorAm
on some lonesome quest for winter
C majorC              A minorAm
the man who sings his poems unravels his display
C majorC               A minorAm
and the neon spectrums turn to splinters
C majorC              A minorAm
and the nights are cold sometimes, but never for his pages
       C majorC         A minorAm
they don't sway against this wilderof the stage
C majorC              A minorAm
and the ageless battle cries I unearthed from my eyes
       C majorC                A minorAm
no longer writhe because the singing poet is wise


[Chorus]
  FF                G+G
they said that love of mine won't wither
        E minorEm             G+G
that time will bring a treasure trove of things
 FF                G+G
and the shadows now are just a sliver
        E minorEm
but still it stings
        FF
but it doesn't matter
        C majorC
when the poet sings

[Verse]
C majorC              A minorAm
under the smoky chimes of roll up cigarettes and rhymes
C majorC              A minorAm
beneath the ponds of makeshift filters
C majorC                 A minorAm
he told me that my sorries were really not worth their weight sometimes
      C majorC        A minorAm
and it was best to let them wither
C majorC               A minorAm
and though I've sung and rung those bells of innocence undone
     C majorC     A minorAm
with the side of the sun
C majorC              A minorAm
but within his song I sail amongst the sounds where sunlight fell
C majorC         A minorAm
when my experience begun
C majorC             A minorAm                C majorC
and when I'm weather-worn the virtues of my mind have torn away
C majorC             A minorAm
and no such sounds won't stray


[Chorus]
  FF                G+G
and if I keep my sorries they'll not wither
        E minorEm             G+G
and time will bring a treasure trove of things
 FF                G+G
and the shadows now are just a sliver
        E minorEm
but still it stings
         FF
but it doesn't matter
        C majorC
when the poet sings


[Verse]
C majorC                 A minorAm
and when this drifting debutante Madonna's come of age
C majorC              A minorAm
and her days of youth are over
C majorC                   A minorAm                C majorC
she and I will both surmise that the poet's song will brush aside this man
           A minorAm
just as the infant's sorrows hold her
C majorC                      A minorAm
and on the day that I am slayed and by the colors of my mind betrayed
C majorC           A minorAm
on the silence of the stage
C majorC                 A minorAm
the poet's song will set apart and turn to flames my weary rungs
C majorC            A minorAm
and set my phenomenons ablaze


[Chorus]
  FF                G+G
he said my charming death would wither
        E minorEm             G+G
and time would bring a treasure trove of things
 FF                G+G
and the shadows now are just a sliver
        E minorEm
but still it stings
        FF
but it doesn't matter
        C majorC