{title:Dirge}
{st:Verlaines}
# From: Way Out Where
# Convert this to PostScript with CHORD: for info see:
#   http://www.lib.uchicago.edu/keith/lyrics.html
# Guitar arrangement by Keith Waclena <k-waclena@uchicago.edu>
# http://www.lib.uchicago.edu/keith/
{define: Am/B base-fret 0 frets x 3 2 2 0 0 }
{define: D6 base-fret 1 frets 0 0 0 2 0 2 }
{define: Db7 base-fret 4 frets - 1 3 1 3 1 }

{c:Capo up 3 frets}

[Am]    [Dm]     [Am]
[Am]    [Dm]     [Am]
[Am]    [Dm]     [Am]
[Am]

[Dm]Sunken old eyes [D] say a [E]matter of time [Am]
'Til the [Dm]smoke in the [D]air is [E]clearing the sky [Am]
The [D7]battle is lost[G], the [C7]battle is lost [F]
Your [Dm]smoke [B7]ring [Esus4]shatters [E]    [Am/B]        [Esus4]        [E]

You're [Dm]flogging a horse[D], you're [E]beating a wall [Am]
You [Dm]lie in the bed[D], you don't [E]argue the point [Am]
You don't [D7]argue the point[G], you don't [C7]argue the point [F]
Yeah [Dm]no [B7]point [Esus4]matters [E]    [Am/B]        [Esus4]        [E]

[Asus2]       [A]

{soc}
[A]I'm [D^7]hear - [D6]ing your [Asus4]breath - [A]ing
Your [Db7]last [F#m]midnight [D]flies
The [D7]heavens look [F]wide-eyed at me
[B7]I won't [A]cry
[A]No point in treading water [Bb]
[B7]No earth be[D/9]neath [A]this [E]wat[A]er
{eoc}

[Am]    [Dm]     [Am]
[Am]    [Dm]     [Am]
[Am]    [Dm]     [Am]
[Am]

I [Dm]can't call a truce [D] bet[E]ween God and I [Am]
To be[Dm]lieve in a place [D] where [E]nobody dies [Am]
You'd [D7]like to be right[G], you'd [C7]like to be right[F]
Your [Dm]salt [B7]tears [Esus4]glisten [E]

[Asus2]       [A]

{c:Chorus}

[Am]     [Dm]      [Dm7]    [F7]      [Am]