Joanna Newsom - Inflammatory Writ

michael maher
an attempt at documenting the chords from the rendition by stocky76

capo on 3rd fret

intro
D G D Gmaj7

D G A7 D
oh , where is your inflammatory writ
D G A7 D
your text that would incite a light , “be lit”

D
our music deserving devotion unswerving

cry “do i deserve her?” with unflagging fervor
G A7 D
well , no you do not , if you cannot get over it

Gmaj7 Bm
but what’s it mean when suddenly we’re spent , tell me true
Gmaj7 Bm
ambition came and reared its head , and went far from you
Gmaj7
even mollusks have weddings , though solemn and leaden
Bm
but you dirge for the dead , take no jam on your bread
D G A7 D
just a supper of salt and a waltz through your empty bed

F A7
and all at once it came to me
Dm F
and i wrote and hunched ’till four – thirty
Cm Gm
but that vestal light
A7 D
it burns out with the night
G7 Dm
in spite of all the time that we spent on it
F
one bedraggled ghost of a sonnet
G D
while outside , the wild boars root
Bm A7
without bending a bough underfoot
C
oh it breaks my heart

G
i don’t know how they do it
so don’t ask me

and as for my inflammatory writ
well , i wrote it an i was not inflamed one bit
advice from the master derailed that disaster
he said “hand that pen over to me , poetaster!”
while across the great plains , keening lovely and awful
ululate the last great american novels
an unlawful lot , left to stutter and freeze , floodlit
D C G A7 D
but at least they didn’t run , to their undying credit