Some Slender Rest Tab par Two Gallants

D                  A     G
And I'm a go make my bed 
                   D
Tuck in the other side 
                       A    G
These confessions are mine 
                      D
But I'll not claim a word 

D
This restless parade 
                     G
Yes I watched it go by
   D
Through the cracks in my palm 
                A
Seen them all gone 
                   D
Some sequence of lives 

D
Well she calls out alone 
                      G
With the pain in her voice 
                   D
It's the wound of betrayal 
                     A
It's the weapon of choice 

                      D
Left her heart on display 
                   G
Though that she'll deny 
                D
Two tattoos of skin 
                   A
One of ice one of tin 
                       D    D7
For the days have gone by 

   Bm        G            D
But I ain't one to reminisce 
     Bm       G                   D      A
But close my heart and clench my fists 

                      D
Now the days swiftly pass 
                        G
With the chest full of fear 
                      D
Here the minutes are hours
                     A
But the moments are years 


                       D
And old acquaintances passed 
              G
In trios, in pairs 
                         D
And if they stay or they go 
                  A
One struggles to know 
                  D      D7
One struggles to care 

    Bm       G               D
But out beyond the Ten Tree walls 
     Bm         G                D
The wind blows hard the highway crawls 

       Bm          G        D       A
And if you should pass the James Hotel 
 Bm         D         A        G
Please stop in for I knew you well 
     Bm      G          D
But that was oh so long ago 
      Bm     G                 D    A
And I never learned how to let go 

                            D                          
But when you fear your own faults 
                         G
And you're sick of this life 
                         D
When you're reckless of hand 
                   A
And trembling the knife 
                           D
And all your doors prefer locks
                        G
And your death prefers spoons 
                  D                      A
Why wouldn't you wait one last laugh at fate 
               D    D7
Forever's too soon 

     Bm         G                D
But across the field death bell knells 
        Bm     G            D         
Listen close hear the toll tell 

   Bm       G       D       A
To run and tell my darling true 
    Bm        D
My breath is short 
    A        G
My days are few 
    Bm         A
So please come down 
     G       A
And take my hand 
    Bm      A
My last demand 
     Bm     G                D
And lead me to some slender rest 
     Bm         G             D   A
And please dismiss what I confess 

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