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Sappho

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Tom: Am

Am                            D
This One Goes Out To All The Historians
                     G
Who Really Know The True Value Of Friendship

It’s A Beautiful Thing

Am            D
I Used To Wish That I Were Dead
G          C             E
Or At Least Somebody Else Instead
Am                   D
All I Longed For Was Love
             G
How Lucky I Was
                         C
When He Made A Funeral Pyre
  E       Am
Of My Bed
             D
Oh Giver Of Pain
              G
I’d Sigh Her Name
                       E          Am
Come For Me Or Set My Body Aflame
               D
But I Didn’t Die
             G                 C
A Lover Of Sky And Now I Know Why
     E       Am
And It Had Nothing To Do With That Fucking Guy

C E

Am
After One Too Many Facts
         D
I Heard “Who Has Made You Cry Like That?”
G                              C           E
There Stood Aphrodite Where I Wept In The Grass
           Am
With One Glimpse I Was Seduced
             D
Her Immortal Face Set My Limbs Loose
     G
Two Minds Became One, She’s Second To None
         C                      E           Am
Call Me Nothing New Because She Was The Sun

                     D
My Heart Is Made Of Fear
         G                            C       E
I Said “Where’ve You Been All Of These Years?”
    Am                     D
She Sat, Said “I’m Here Now
         G                  C
My Family Just Moved To Town”
   E      Am              G
“Oh, Cool” I Had It Wrong
                                    C
She Was Never A Part Of Any Pantheon
   Am                         D
So At The Dawn Of My New World
     G                            C
Sat Not An Old God But The New Girl
E
Overcome, So Undone
I Was Longing For A Girl

Am
We Became My Favorite Craft
      D
She Taught Me Love And This And That
       G
“Your Heart Is Made Of Song”
          C                E
I’d Lie Still, She’d Hum Along
   Am
I Desired, Oh I Craved
        D
Ambrosia Kisses Made Me Brave
         G
When The Moon And I Set She Anointed My Neck
    C                     E
I Dropped To My Knees As I Shook My Chest

      Am
Your Wants Are My Needs

Make It Ichor I Bleed
    D
I Profess We Lack But Little Deaths
          G
You’re My Ally In Love

As Below So Above
C                   E
Eros Stood Looking Impressed

And Then We Did what He Does Best

C  E

      Am
That Day She Made My Bedroom Holy
 D
Satisfied My Passions Slowly
G
Flowers Were In Her Hair
            C                  E
Thought I Dreamt That She Was There
         Am
I Asked “Why’re Ya Tryna Kill Me?”
      D
She Laughed And Called Me Silly
   G
“You’re Not Gonna Die But Gee,
         C             E
You’re Pretty When You Cry”

Am
Thought She Said She Loved Me
        D
But It Sounded Kinda Odd
              G
She Said “Somebody Will Remember Us
C                E
Even After We’re Gone”
      Am
With One More Stroke Of Luck