Key: Gm 🎸 Intro: D# Cm Gm A# 🎸 Verse 1: D# Cm We hereby conduct this post-mortem Gm A# He was a hot house flower to my outdoorsmen D# Cm Our maladies were such, we could not cure them Gm A# And so a touch that was my birth right became foreign
🎸 Chorus: D# Come one come all A# F D# It’s happening again F D# The empathetic hunger descends We’ll tell no-one A# F D# 'Cept all of our friends F We must know how did it end? D# Cm Gm A# 🎸 Verse 2: D# Cm We were blind to unforeseen circumstances Gm A# We learn the right stеps to different dances D# C And fеll victim to interlopers glances Gm A# Lost the game of chance, what are the chances? D# Soon they’ll go home to their husbands Cm Smug ’cause they know they can trust him Gm A# Then feverishly calling their cousins (Oh, oh) 🎸 Chorus: D# A# Guess who we ran into at the shops? D# A# F Walking in circles like she was lost D# Didn’t you hear? A# F They called it all off D# One gasp and then A# F How did it end? Cm F Gm D# 🎸 Bridge: Cm F Say it once again with feeling how the death rattle Gm D# Breathing, silenced as the soul was leaving Cm The deflation of our dreaming F Leaving me bereft and reeling Gm My beloved ghost and me D# Sitting in a tree D# D-Y-I-N-F 🎸 Chorus: A# F D# It’s happening again A# F D# How did it end? A# F D# I can’t pretend like I understand A# F D# How did it end? D# Come one come all A# F D# It’s happening again F D# The empathetic hunger descends We’ll tell no-one A# F D# 'Cept all of our friends A# F D# But I still don’t know how did it end?