Mrs Dalloway

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[Verse 1]
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Do you still go to the magpie store
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with the vintage fur coats
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and jewellery-laden drawers?
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Do you still talk in hieroglyphs and wit
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from books you’ve read
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and films full of pith?


[Pre-Chorus 1]
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Christ, can we just have a conversation
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where money and ambition fall away?
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There’s a garden full of sweet pea and carnations.
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We’ll lie out on the grass there someday, someday.


[Chorus]
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My—y-y, Mrs Dalloway
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My-y-y, Mrs Dalloway
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sketching women in summertime cafes,
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so reluctant to go home.


[Verse 2]
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Do you still cry as you pull into the drive,
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thinking ‘God, is this it --
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What it means to be alive?’
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Do you still paint every Sunday when you wake?
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I recall you used to point out
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every subtle flawed mistake.


[Pre-Chorus 2]
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I still don’t know the names of constellations
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or the true circumference of the Earth,
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but Christ, can we just have a conversation
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where you are self-endowed with silver worth?  Silver worth?


[Chorus]
G#m Em  B
My—y-y, Mrs Dalloway
G#m Em  B
My-y-y, Mrs Dalloway
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sketching women in summertime cafes,
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so reluctant to go home

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[Chorus]
G#m Em  B
My—y-y, Mrs Dalloway
G#m Em  B
My-y-y, Mrs Dalloway
G#m       C#m      F#
sketching women in summertime cafes,
Em                 B
so reluctant to go home.


[Chorus]
G#m Em  B
My—y-y, Mrs Dalloway
G#m Em  B
My-y-y, Mrs Dalloway
G#m       C#m      F#
sketching women in summertime cafes,
Em                 B
so reluctant to go home.