intro : D , G , D , A , D

D G A D
oh where is your inflammatory writ
G A D
your text that would inside a light be lit

our music deserving devotion unswerving

cried do i deserve her with unflagging fervour
G A D
well no we do not if we cannot get over it
Gm7 Bm
but whats it mean when suddenly were spent tell me true
Gm7 Bm
ambition came and reared its head and went far from you
Gm7
even molluscs have weddings though solemn and leaden
Bm
but you dirge for the dead and take no jam on your bread
D G A D
just a supper of salt and a waltz through your empty bed
F A
and all at once it came to me
A# F
and i wrote in hunch til 4 : 30y
Cm Gm A D
but that vestal light it burns out with the night
G7 Dm
in spite of all the time that we spent on it
A# F
on one bedraggled ghost of a sonnet
G D
while outside the wild boars root
Bm A
without bending a bough underfoot
C G
oh it breaks my heart i dont know how they do it

so dont ask me
D G A D
and as for my inflammatory writ
G A D
i wrote it and i was not inflamed one bit
Gm7
advice from the master derailed that disaster
Bm
he said hand that pen over to me poetaster
Gm7
while cross the great plains keening lovely and awful
Bm
you ulate the lost great american novels
D G A D
an unlawful lot left to stutter and freeze floodlit
G A D A D
but at least they didnt run to their undying credit