Tom: Am
F Am
I can hear the cannons calling
E Am
As though across a dream
Am Am
And I can smell the smoke of Hell
C E
In every stitch and seam
F Am
And like flowers, the bodies tumble
E Am
Around this muddied lot
Am Am
I cannot hear them scream
E Am
‘Forget me not.’
[Verse 2]
F Am
Your voice it carries over
E Am
The hubbub and the hum
Am Am
And it paints the sky and circles high
C E
Like the beating of a drum
Am Am
You will scream ‘I won’t forget you’
E Am
But I’ll cover my cold ears
Am Am
It cannot be a lie
E Am
If no-one hears.
[Verse 3]
F Am
Cos although you say good day to me
E Am
I know I don’t belong
Am Am
And although you hold my hand and say
C E
‘I love you’, you are wrong.
F Am
Because love does not exist here
E Am
In this garden there’s no feeling
F Am
And you say the words so often
E Am
That I barely know the meaning
F Am
And when all the flowers are rotten
E Am
And all the cannons shot
Am Am
I’ll scream, but you won’t hear
E Am
‘Forget me not’
[Verse 4]
F Am
And in years to come you’ll wander
E Am
To the place up on our hill
Am Am
And then you’ll cry to our painted sky
C B7/E
‘I loved him then, I love him still’.
F Am
And you’ll strew some sage and lilies,
E Am
And roses where I rot
F Am
Of all the flowers you picked,
F Am
I knew you would forget
E Am
Forget-me-nots.
