Death Of A Ladies Man

Intro: D  E7  Em  A7  G  D (x2)


Verse 1:
       D                                E7
Ah the man she wanted all her life was hanging by a thread
    Em         A7             G                 D
"I never even knew how much I wanted you," she said.
     D                                  E7
His muscles they were numbered and his style was obsolete.
    Em           A7                   G               D
"Oh baby, I have come too late." She knelt beside his feet.


Verse 2:
       D                             E7
"I'll never see a face like yours in years of men to come
      Em             A7            G              D
I'll never see such arms again in wrestling or in love."
    D                              E7
And all his virtues burning in the smoky Holocaust
    Em           A7             G               D
She took unto herself most everything her lover lost


Bridge 1:
Bm
........Now the master of this landscape he was standing at the view
        Em
with a sparrow of St. Francis that he was preaching to
     F#m
She beckoned to the sentry of his high religious mood
                 Em            Em/D#               Em/D         A7
She said, "I'll make a place between my legs, I'll show you solitude."


Interlude:  D


Verse 3:
    D                            E7
He offered her an orgy in a many mirrored room
   Em           A7                 G            D
He promised her protection for the issue of her womb
    D                              E7
She moved her body hard against a sharpened metal spoon
     Em                 A7         G             D
She stopped the bloody rituals of passage to the moon

Piano solo backing:
D  E7  Em  A7  G  D  (x2)
D (for 2 bars)


Verse 4:
     D                    E7
She took his much admired oriental frame of mind
        Em                 A7       G            D
and the heart-of-darkness alibi his money hides behind
     D                              E7
She took his blonde madonna and his monastery wine
       Em              A7           G             D
"This mental space is occupied and everything is mine."


Interlude: D (for 2 bars)


Verse 5:
    D                            E7
He tried to make a final stand beside the railway track
               Em               A7            G            D
She said, "The art of longing's over and it's never coming back."
    D                               E7
She took his tavern parliament, his cap, his cocky dance,
    Em                 A7              G                 D
She mocked his female fashions and his working-class moustache.


Bridge 2:
Bm
........Now the last time that I saw him he was trying hard to get
   Em
A woman's education but he's not a woman yet
        F#m
And the last time that I saw her she was living with some boy
     Em               Em/D#          Em/D            A7
Who gives her soul an empty room and gives her body joy.


Last verse:
              D                  E7
So the great affair is over but whoever would have guessed
          Em             A7             G         D
It would leave us all so vacant and so deeply unimpressed?
     D                             E7
It's like our visit to the moon or to that other star
  Em               A7              G                     D
I guess you go for nothing if you really want to go that far.


Interlude:
D  (for 3 bars)
D  E7  Em  A7  G  D

     D                             E7
It's like our visit to the moon or to that other star
  Em               A7              G                     D
I guess you go for nothing if you really want to go that far.


Interlude:
D (Strum it fast this time, there is no set time signature. Last time the next
part is repeated, there is only keyboard and no guitar)

     D                             E7
It's like our visit to the moon or to that other star
  Em                A7             G                     D
I guess you go for nothing if you really want to go that far.


Chord shape suggestions for the Em-Em/D#-Em/D part:
Em:           Em/D#:        Em/D:
x-x-2-0-0-0   x-x-1-0-0-0   x-x-0-0-0-0
OR:           OR:           OR:
x-7-5-0-0-0   x-6-5-0-0-0   x-5-5-0-0-0