goes like this:
A1 A2 B
C1 C2 C3 D
E
F1 F2 F3
A1
GMaj CMaj emin
Jenny was a nihilist. She broke the news one day,
CMaj D7
Smashed her father’s idols, and sent God on his way.
G C e
“If this is it,” she said, “I’ve lit a candle in the closet.
C D7
Moth and mystery, beware! And out away beyond the handle,
emin7 DMaj
Where the Shadow shrugs her shoulders,
CMaj7 G
Where the boys are pushing boulders,
CMaj D7
Where the sun is always out,
emin7 CMaj7 DMaj CMaj DMaj CMaj
I give a shout, I turn about, I seek my fortune.”
A2
G CMaj emin
So she packed a bag and cleared a head and made herself a deal:
CMaj13 B7b9
If she could wear it, warm it, weigh it, then she knew that it was real.
CMaj D7 G amin7 G
But what about what you can only feel?
CMaj D7 emin
What about what you can only feel?
B
[piano blues in e minor]
C1
emin DMaj CMaj G
Gone the day, the sunset fades away, revealing darkness where
amin9 emin amin9 CMaj D7 CMaj
before shone high electric pinks and violent ochers, calm and ponderous blues, golden gleams in every hue.
C2
emin DMaj CMaj G
Jenny pulls her socks off, turns the lights off, but her eyes stay on,
amin G amin9 emin
lit from somewhere soft behind the gentle turning of her mind.
C3
emin DMaj CMaj G
Outside clouds obscure the stars. She knows that somewhere Mars is lurking;
amin G CMaj D7/C
somewhere men are working, but her mind is murky, sinking softly off to sleep.
D
EbMaj9 D7 b9 EbMaj9 G
E
NC
And there was not a light to show her anything
Just the constant rolling waves and howling wind
And Jenny sank in sheets of white and felt no change
CMaj D7
But in the doorway of her dream was something strange:
F1
C G D e C D
She saw a ghost! a ghost! at night she met a ghost!
C G D e C D
And it was cold and kind and gave a gorgeous glow
C G D e C D
But in the morning it was gone. Did she believe?
C G D e
Oh no she didn’t [k]no[w] she didn’t know
D C G C G C G
Now Jenny knows she’ll never know
F2
She saw a ghost!
And it was old and blind and made the blanket billow and blow
But in the morning it was gone. Did she believe?
Oh no she didn't [k]no[w] she didn't know
Now Jenny knows she'll never know
F3
C G D e C D
She saw a ghost! a ghost! at night she met a ghost!
C G D7 B7 emin DMaj
And it was vast and frightening, casting lightning, faster than her fears could comprehend.
make a mess
The phantom, seemingly at random, flew in fits around the
NC
silent empty room.
continue messmaking
Her womb began to whirl, her soul began to swoon;
The silky silver rivulets of moonlight quivered, shivered, quaked,
As if they couldn’t keep the pace or shine upon its face.
F#
Her bed began to shake. Her head began to ache.
F#7 bmin
Her bones would surely break!
A13 GMaj7 A13
She couldn’t take much more, but somehow, more than ever in her life before,
GMaj DMaj
she felt she was alone (but she was not afraid! Her visions were her own and she was not a shade).
GMaj
She felt she was a weight and she felt she was a Mass and she felt she was a Wake
bmin AMaj GMaj f#min
and in the morning it was
NC
gone
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