Intro
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[Verse 1]
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Trains out my window
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Running in lines
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Sleep squared on a knuckle, dreaming on
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Drowning softly, clowning sadly, dying badly
[Verse 2]
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Selling flowers to a widow, the money's just fine,
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Every week's a new funeral if you time your knocking right.
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A vision of Theresa, toothless and tears in her eyes
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Pouring on the podium, still the river’s all bone-dry
[Chorus]
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Danny are you listening?
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The pipes, the pipes are choking
Gmaj7 D
The roses are out of season
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We find red in the eyes of the lionised bleeders
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Danny are you listening?
Bm F#m G
The pipes, the pipes are choking
Gmaj7 D
The roses are out of season
Bm F#m G A D
We find red in the eyes of the bleeders we lionise
[Verse 3]
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Your skin begins to leather with the creeping of time
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Those trains pass your window, each reminding you what's behind
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A businessman's cathedral is sacred to any fucker who fights
Gmaj7 D Bm
You fumble around in the porch-light and foot the dog shit on the
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drive
[Chorus]
G D
Danny are you listening?
Bm F#m G
The pipes, the pipes are choking
Gmaj7 D
All the roses out of season
Bm F#m G A
We find red in the eyes of the lionised bleeders
G D
Danny are you listening?
Bm F#m G
The pipes, the pipes are choking
Gmaj7 D
The roses are out of season
Bm F#m G A D
We find red in the eyes of the bleeders we lionise
[Outro]
D
Trains out my windows
Bm
Running in lines
D
Sleep squared on a knuckle dreaming on
Bm F#m G Gmaj7 D
Drowning softly, clowning sadly, dying badly