Tom: E
E A F#m A
[Verse 1]
E
So the fields are stubble, the garden's done
A
Where the scary scarecrow stands
F#m A
Sees her holding up horizons with her hands
E
She's so tired of reading daddy's lips
A
That essay on a frown
F#m A
Watch her memories of human voices drown
[Chorus 1]
C#m B E A
Let horsey bray break between the thunder boom
C#m B E A
Make grasses' swish meet the crickets' ring
C#m B E A
Let every sound consecrate our whispering
B
The words that Betta never heard
[Instrumental 1]
E A F#m A
[Verse 2]
E
So the back lanes tie the city down
A
A mess of dirty string
F#m A
Winter dies the same way every spring
E
As the sky tries on its uniform
A
Of turned off TV gray
F#m A
And the ways we watched her watch us walk away
[Chorus 2]
C#m B E A
Let every rain clatter down at groaning streets
C#m B E A
Make footsteps tick, talk to echoed walls
C#m B E A
Let every sound consecrate our whispering
B
The words that Betta never heard
[Instrumental 2]
E A F#m A x 2
[Chorus 3]
C#m B E A
Let every wind howl and creak the creaking doors
C#m B E A
To rooms that too much has happened in
C#m B E A
Let every sound consecrate our whispering
B
The words that Betta never heard
