FELL
  By Rose Polenzani
  Appears on "Rose Polenzani" (Daemon Records 2001)

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VERSE ONE:
G                     C
You can laugh all you want to, 

A# C    G
I  don't care. 

G              C
Only one thing matters to me 

       A#    C    G
and it isn't here. 

G                C
Like a happy, go-easy girl, 

            A#               C       G
I should've waited for those railing bells. 

G                  C
They were only the rattling about 

      A#     C    G
of my ruined shell. 



CHORUS:
          F    C     G
What do I know about love? 

              F    C   G
I never could show myself. 

              F     C    G
I lay down my cloud hung hopes 

             F     C    G
wherever the first ones fell. 



VERSE TWO:
G                C
I lit up to the tower 

     A#       C     G
when you were last asleep. 

G                    C
With the pigeons and cobwebs to cover, 

  A#   C  G
I kept my peace. 

G                 C
But this terrible aching was rumbling 

A#          C     G
through the stone floors. 

G                C
And I set out to howling, 

A# C   G
RESCUE ME! 


CHORUS


BRIDGE:

Em            C 
Stammer away, penny brigade, 

G             F            C
Hell sunk and fretless and dancing. 

  Em                       C 
I played all my fears into alchemy's ears 

          G          F     C       D
and she's deaf to my every asking.



VERSE THREE:
G                     C
Take this saturn-soft flesh, 

     A#     C        G
that I have smoothed over. 

G                 C
Give it all up to gravel and grease 

     A#  C     G
and hard labor. 

G                     C
There were lovers who shone over me 

        A#        C    G
like to shame the very sun, 

G                         C
but the thieves who would spit on my breast 

         A#       C     G
were the generous ones.


CHORUS


END
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© 2001 Rose Polenzani/Parhelion Music ASCAP