Intro: E C#m G#m B Verse: E C#m We hereby conduct this post-mortem G#m B He was a hot house flower to my outdoorsmen E C#m Our maladies were such, we could not cure them G#m B And so a touch that was my birth right became foreign Chorus: E Come one come all B F# E It’s happening again F# E The empathetic hunger descends We’ll tell no-one B F# E ʼCept all of our friends F# We must know how did it end? E C#m G#m B Verse: E C#m We were blind to unforeseen circumstances G#m B We learn the right stеps to different dances E C# And fеll victim to interlopers glances G#m B Lost the game of chance, what are the chances? E Soon they’ll Go home to their husbands C#m Smug ’cause they know they can trust him G#m B Then feverishly calling their cousins (Oh, oh) Chorus: E B Guess who we ran into at the shops? E B F# Walking in circles like she was lost E Didn’t you hear? B F# They called it all off E One gasp and then B F# How did it end? C#m F# G#m E Bridge: C#m F# Say it once again with feeling how the death rattle G#m E Breathing, silenced as the soul was leaving C#m The deflation of our dreaming F# Leaving me bereft and reeling G#m My beloved ghost and me E Sitting in a tree E D-Y-I-N-G Chorus: B F# E It’s happening again B F# E How did it end? B F# E I can’t pretend like I understand B F# E How did it end? E Come one come all B F# E It’s happening again F# E The empathetic hunger descends We’ll tell no-one B F# E ʼCept all of our friends B F# E But I still don’t know how did it end?
