Miss Bottom Of The Hill

         D
So Miss Bottom of the Hill what do you want?
            G
The sun is shinin' and your lovers always lose you in the dark
                                             Bm
And they were all chosen to remember how the sparrows hit the window
          G                                A
That you closed to keep the cat out in the yard

              D
And like your body bein' dragged behind the moon

You bring a memory of your mother like the money in your shoe
                                    Bm
And how her penetratin' wisdom, her bulletproof religion
       G                               A
Always rip you like a wool off of the loom

     D
You floated farther than you ever meant to go

And only now see you are naked when the wind began to blow

There's no advice that you've been missin'
    Bm
No trespass unforgiven
       G                           A
Just a river with no pity for your boat


[Chorus]

              G                                A
I've come to know that I was stealin' all your kisses on the evenin'
     D                               Bm
The dogs were loose and lyin' on the street
                  G
You've learned to blend into the choir
       A
How to hold your hand in fire
     D          A                   Bm
And what to say instead of what you mean
                   G                              A
But the trouble it saves for just how hard it can be


[Verse 2]

            D
You met the women gluin' jewels onto a crown
              G
You know men hidin' in the city and their way of bein' found
             D
And you got nothin' on your shoulders
              Bm
Still there's nothin' too much colder
        G                               A
Than a rubble of a house that's fallin' down

        D
Like a baby cryin 'til it fal ls asleep
              G
The autumn's over by the time you count the color of the leaves
                G
You're paintin' buzzards on the ceilin'
         Bm
Fallin' faithless at the healin'
          G                                   A
With your friends around you wailin on their knees


[Chorus]

         G                                          A
And I've come to know that I was stealin' all your kisses on the evenin'
    D                 A              Bm
The fog had swallowed everything but us
                  G
You've learned to balance on the cable
         A
Drink us all under the table
     D          A                 Bm
And who to try instead of who you trust
                    G                              A
With a hand on your heart that threw you under the bus


[Verse 3]

        D
So Miss Bottom of the Hill, what do you want?
           G
The sun is shinin' and you cleaned your pretty pistol of a heart
     D
But when you talk about tomorrow
      Bm
When to beg and when to borrow
           G                                 A
Is how to hit the ground before you hear the shot

           D
And like a fish too deep and driftin' in the sea
            G
You've grown accustomed to the blindness lookin' up and anxiously
              D                                     Bm
But there's a stone inside your pocket while you're plowin' through the market
         G                                 A
But you know even the time it takes ain't free


[Chorus]

     G                                         A
I've come to know that I was stealin' all your kisses on the evenin'
    D                 A              Bm
The stars were barely hangin' in the sky
                   G
You've learned to eat when you're not hungry
        A
How to laugh when nothin's funny
     D           A                 Bm
And what to get instead of gettin' by
               G                            A
But oh, how it changes with the passin' of time


[Verse 4]

             D
You heard so many voices hidden in the wind
            G
See all the children of the world and how its fingers reach for them
             D
Two branches tired of their bendin'
         Bm
I don't see our story endin'
          G                       A
Quite as clean as it was easy to begin

       D
Like a hole that let the fox under the fence
               G
You've got no solace and no sanctuary you can recommend
            D
Beggin' for mercy at the bedside
        Bm
We got frozen in the headlights
        G                             A
But our kind of mercy never made much sense


[Chorus]

           G                            A
I've come to know that I was stealin' all your kisses on the evenin'
     D         A                   Bm
But both were disappearin' in the waves
                  G
You've learned to lead the one you follow
        A
How to spit out what you swallow
    D             A              Bm
And when to hand instead of give away
                G                           Fm     A
That secret of ours is one I'll take to the grave

B

[Verse 5]

        E
So Miss Bottom of the Hill what do you want?
            A
The sun is shinin' and I think you want me more often than not
              E
But like your father in the garden
         C#m
I won't finish what I started
         A                         B
'Til you bill me for the flowers I forgot

           E
And like a curse too old for anyone to care
            A
You said to meet you on the mountain cause you never make it there
                E
And sucked your thumb along the highway
         C#m
Proudly promisin' that one day
    A                                 B
I'd miss the way we tumbled down the stairs


[Chorus]

                  A                                B
And I've come to know that I was stealin' all your kisses on the evenin'
    E               C#m
The car was gently glidin' off the road
                  A
You've learned to rise above your body
        B
How to never say you're sorry
    E                            C#m
And where to go instead of going home
                      A                                  B               E
With th e light by the bed and all the clothes you've outgrown