Rafters

C  F  Am  G  F

C                               F
Ceiling tiles are falling down, selling secrets between now
Am                           G       F
And defeated pasts on last defense
    C                                        F
The walls can’t keep the warm in here, this busted house of cans of beer
 Am                             G     F
Aluminum, some plaster and some fear

C               F                   Am
There are her bones, there are the fossils
               G     F
There near the sewer pipe
C               F               Am
There, between floors, between wars
            G      F
There on a two-by-four
   Em                                  F
Harmonic notes still humming from her lyre
     C             G        F
Just set my little soul on fire

F            Am
Oh oh oh, oh oh,    oh
F            Am
Oh oh oh, oh oh,    oh

F                           Am
  In the shape of my latest sin
F                         Am
  In the wake of soon moving - on
F                                 Am
  Though this house is crumbling down
      G                         F
She’s whispering her last words now

F                               Am
  Did he love her there on the floor?
                       (When he pressed his mark in that knotted board, pressed an oath in that 
knotted board)
F                                     Am
  Just two names, one shape, tangled minor chords
                                     (A heart around their sweet accord, wrapped around their 
love and stored)
F                                  Am
  The first day, got away, then so many more
                                               (A decade past, and then a score)
    G       C       Am                                    G
Now winter falls, decay and dark creating art showing the world just where you really are

   F        C          G      C
Oh sweet Louise, since eighty-three
      F       C                  G
While paneling and pyramids fall down
    F        C        G    C
Oh, sweet Louise, now I believe
   F             C                     G
In rafters in this beat-up, blue-neck town,
   F              G                C
In turning tides, in me, in hidden vows.


[Break]

C  F  Am  G  F

C               F                   Am
There are her bones, there are the fossils
               G     F   G
There near the sewer pi--ipe

C               F                   Am
There are her bones, there are the fossils
                 G     F
Unfinished song I complete
C               F                   Am
There on his throne, here in their castle
             G   F
My Pygmalion ivory
C          F               Am
Here on my own, like this home
                G         F
The landlord collects his fee
C            F           Am
I’m growing old, I'm so alone,
Am
These ceiling tiles are falling down
    G                F
I’m seeing what I’ve got to see

F            Am
Oh oh oh, oh oh,    oh
F            Am
Oh oh oh, oh oh,    oh

F            Am
Oh oh oh, oh oh,

   F        C          G      C
Oh sweet Louise, since eighty-three
      F       C                  G
While paneling and pyramids fall down
    F        C        G    C
Oh, sweet Louise, now I believe
   F            C                G
In rafters in a rugged Worcester town,
   F              G                C
In turning tides, in me, in hidden vows.