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The only girl I've ever loved
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Was born with roses in her eyes
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But then they buried her alive
            D              C
One evening nineteen-forty-five
              D             G
With just her sister at her side
         D                C
And only weeks before the guns
             D             G
All came and rained on everyone
            D             C
Now she's a little boy in Spain
        D                  G
Playing pianos filled with flames
         D                C
On empty rings around the sun
            D            C      G
All sing to say my dream has come

                C             G
But now we must pick up every piece
       C               G
Of the life we used to love
        C
Just to keep ourselves
G                D
At least enough to carry on

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And now we ride the circus wheel
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With your dark brother wrapped in white
C                       G
Says it was good to be alive
G          D               C
But now he rides a comet's flame
             D          G
And won't be coming back again
                D             C
The Earth looks better from a star
               D                  G
That's right above from where you are
          D                C
He didn't mean to make you cry
                  D               G
With sparks that ring and bullets fly
         D                 C
On empty rings around your heart
               D                 C     G
The world just screams and falls apart

                C             G
But now we must pick up every piece
       C               G
Of the life we used to love
        C
Just to keep ourselves
G                D
At least enough to carry on

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And here's where your mother sleeps
    G    A  C   C               G             D
And here is the room where your brothers were born
G A  C     C      G
Indentations in the sheets
            G A    C    C               G      D
Where their bodies once moved but don't move anymore
            C      G       C     G
And it's so sad to see the world agree
            C                G                 D
That they'd rather see their faces filled with flies
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All when I'd want to keep white roses in their eyes

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