Tom: G
G
[Verse 1]
D C
When you come across unto me with your hair
G
The tangled grass of evening breezes
D
And you do not hide your face because
C D
Somebody said one time it wasn't natural
G
What a joy for us just running down
Gm
This crooked trail of midnight
G Am
And the peaceful things inside me that it does
Then you whisper low "I have to go"
The acid tears start coming slow
A G
To complicate a simple thing as love
[Chorus]
D C
Awake now I don't hear the floorboards creaking
G
As you walk back from the window
Em G
Or feel your satin fingers drawing patterns
D
On my back where I lay dying
C
Without you I'm a child who sucks the vacant thumb
Of emptiness left crying
D
When he has not had enough
G
At the mercy of an empty room
Sing verses to some faded wall
Confused about a simple thing as love
[Verse 2]
D C
It's to bad we couldn't stay here 'til the clock
G
Runs out and falls from sheer exhaustion
D
Or 'til morning as I watch you
C D
As you stoop to pick your things up from the floor
G
But to soon for us it's over
Gm
And the shock of the electric light bulb sunrise
G Am
From the ceiling up above
As it dangles to remind us
Of the spiderweb that binds us
A G
And just complicates a simple thing as love
[Chorus]
D C
Awake now I don't hear the floorboards creaking
G
As you walk back from the window
Em G
Or feel your satin fingers drawing patterns
D
On my back where I lay dying
C
Without you I'm a child who sucks the vacant thumb
Of emptiness left crying
D
When he has not had enough
G
At the mercy of an empty room
