Love Used To Be

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VERSE:

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Love used to  be the  ruler
G
From which you measured all

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Love used to be the dizzying height
G
From which you wished to fall

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Love used to be the white and cozy apparition
G
towering in your dreams


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Love used to be
G
Love used to be


PICKING PATTERN AND CHORDS SAME AS ABOVE:

Cmaj7               C/B
Love used to be the horseshoe made of iron
G
And always smiling up

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And in your arms it gathered all manner
G
Of silky satin golden luck

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Love used to be the pyramid and on top
G
Its eye that always sees

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Love used to be
     G
Love used to be


CHORUS:


      Am       C
Dig a six foot hole
           D
Inside my chest
Am                 C
Heart like a grave stone
             D
Laid down to rest
     Am C G
Good-bye  love
D G
Amen


VERSE:

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Love used to be a sigh like petals
G
Gently falling down
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From the flower of my lover's
     G
Half open rose bud mouth
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Love used to be the thirst, oh and the quenching
G
The question in need of answering
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Love used to be
G
Love used to be

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Love used to be hope unflinching
G
A dare that believed it must
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Love used to be the heady drunken feeling of
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Flesh heavy with lust
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Love used to be a photograph of the future
         G
taken by one mind four eyes could see
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Love used to be
G
Love used to be


CHORUS:

      Am       C
Dig a six foot hole
           D
Inside my chest
Am                 C
Heart like a grave stone
             D
Laid down to rest
     Am C G
Good-bye  love
D G
Amen


VERSE:

Cmaj7             C/B
Love used to be a miracle
G
The proof that God exists
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As I doubled our image, immortality delivered
G
by the double helix
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Love used to be the bedrock you built a life upon
G
Into the future reaching
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It used to be what woke you each day
    G
And eased me into sleeping
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Love used to be my compass
G
But now I'm alone and I'm adrift and I'm lost at sea
            Cmaj7     C/B
'Cause love used to be
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Love used to be
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Love used to be
     G
Love used to be