The Night My Piano Upped And Died

D
Love descended in the water
                       F      C
In the breaking of the mother-daughter
D
Father-son and lines of genes
C                  G
Rip and crease and keep things clean
D
In the teeth and in the tether
                 F       C
In the backwards-beating weather
D
To the endpoint, to the hollow
C                  G
Two loves' labours lost in colour


[Hook]

G              D   G        D
Lost in dreams and crumpled pride
G                D G         Bm    G     D
The night my piano upped and died, died, died


[Verse 2]

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Love came down for many years
                        F        C
And lost her teeth with raindrop tears
D
Swelled her woodwork, pushed her pedals
C                 G
She went home without a medal
D
She went down down, all the way
                 F   C
Now she plays an alleway
D
Now she cuts her shape with debt
C                      G
And now she's past it, past her best


[Hook]

G              D   G        D
Lost in dreams and crumpled pride
G                D G         Bm    G     D
The night my piano upped and died, died, died


[Verse 3]

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Now she's past and all alone
                       F        C
She laughs a drainpipe down the phone
D
Somewhere in the distant nether
C              G
I can hear her off the tether
D
Off the hook of ones and twos
               F         C
Now she really sings the blues
D
Now she dances at a mess
C               G
Now she has her idle guys


[Hook]

G              D   G        D
Lost in dreams and crumpled pride
G                D G         Bm    G     D
The night my piano upped and died, died, died