Lilja's Lament Chords

Lyrics & chords

[Verse 1]
[Am]Strolling under harbor lights
Lil[C]ja reads a line
[D]Poor Ta[E]tiana
[Am]In another library
[C]Rochester arrives
Oh [D]lord, he's [E]half- blind

[Verse 2]
[Am]Lancelot and Guinevere
Came nowhere near [C]the pier
No [D]love [E]this year
[Am]Marian called Robin Hood
To [Em]save her from the [C]sea
But [D]words are [E]cheap

[Verse 3]
[C]Stories had been spun
A sea of [Am]metaphors were done
[F]And Lilja heard but [Am]won
[C]der's [G]thunder
[Am]All the books she read
Kept her in [Em]bed and hurt her head
Her [F]tragic flaw was [C]not
[G]a blunder

[Interlude 1]
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[Verse 4]
[Am]Percival got drunk
And tossed his cup into the [C]snow
[D]Where'd the grail [E]go?
[Am]Catherine found her Heathcliff
But the [C]Brontes died alone
[D]Air gets [E]so cold

[Verse 5]
[Am]Wind revives the bal[C]ladeers
Sentenced to their words
[D]Fog means re[E]turn
[Am]For them bards and troubadours
Sen[Em]tences are worlds
[C]We long [D]but don[E]'t learn

[Verse 6]
[C]Stories had been spun
A sea of [Am]metaphors were done
[F]And Lilja heard but [C]wonder's [G]thunder
[Am]All the books she read
Kept her in [Em]bed [C]and hurt her h[Em]ead
Her [F]tragic flaw was [C]not [G]a blunder

[Verse 7]
[Dm]Teeter totter [Am]by the harbor
Lil[Dm]ja looked up, [G]saw a starfish
[Dm]Holding her hand [Am]was Ophelia
[F]Smith, [G]Elliot, Plath, Sylvia

[Verse 8]
Stor[C]ies had been spun
A sea [Am]of metaphors were done
[F]But Lilja lived her [C]blunder [G]thunder
[Am]All the books she read
Put her to [Em]rest on a seabed
Her [F]tragic flaw still [C]makes me won[G]der

[Verse 9]
[C]Stories had been spun
A sea of [Am]metaphors were done
[F]But Lilja lived her [C]blunder [G]thunder
[Am]All the books she read
Put her to [Em]rest on a seabed
Her [F]tragic flaw still [C]makes me [G]won[C][Am]
[G]der[F][C][G][Am][Em][F]

[Outro 1]
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