🎸 Intro: Bb Ab Cm 🎸 Verse: Bb When you're dead and buried Ab Cm With a smile painted on your face Bb Your eulogy, like poetry Ab Cm Flowers overwhelming the wake Bb Where I'm sure as in your life there will be Ab Cm Beautiful women there in your death Bb Crying out, they swear they will love you until Ab Cm Their very own last dying breath
Bb 'Cause you just have this way of charming those Ab Cm Who catch your eye like shiny things Bb With a face made for daytime TV shows Ab Cm You're a nightmare disguised as a good dream 🎸 Interlude: Bb Ab Cm 🎸 Chorus: Bb Ab Cm When she wants a garden, you give her a rose Bb Ab Cm Just the taste of something you could give her but you won't Bb Ab Cm When she wants a garden, you give her a rose Bb Ab Cm And you know it 🎸 Verse: Bb But you just have your ways, what with all of those Ab Cm Grotesque displays of love you show Bb Ripped from pages of books, every word which you know Ab Cm And recite back to them as if they were your own Bb I feel sorry for them because how could they know? Ab Cm 'Til they've died by your hands, 'til they've felt the cold Bb Cut of your sharp tongue, with your delusions of grandeur Ab Cm Yeah, you give nothing and think it too much 🎸 Chorus: Bb Ab Cm And when she wants a garden, you give her a rose Bb And I'll bet you have to hide your grin Ab Cm As you watch it die in your arms Bb Ab Cm When she wants a garden, you give her a rose Bb Ab Cm And you know it 🎸 Verse: Bb When you've dearly departed Ab Cm There will be all those broken-hearted Bb Ab Cm But I'll have a smile painted on my face Bb There's a spot in the grass Waiting for you at Ab Cm Whispering Glades Bb And Hollywood suits you, darling, I think Ab Cm You should stay