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
C#m G#m A Amaj7
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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B 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?
C#m G#m A
The pipes, the pipes are choking
Amaj7 E
The roses are out of season
C#m G#m A B
We find red in the eyes of the lionised bleeders
A E
Danny are you listening?
C#m G#m A
The pipes, the pipes are choking
Amaj7 E
The roses are out of season
C#m G#m A B E
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
A E C#m G#m A
B businessman's cathedral is sacred to any fucker who fights
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You fumble around in the porch-light and foot the dog shit on the
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drive
[Chorus]
A E
Danny are you listening?
C#m G#m A
The pipes, the pipes are choking
Amaj7 E
All the roses out of season
C#m G#m A B
We find red in the eyes of the lionised bleeders
A E
Danny are you listening?
C#m G#m A
The pipes, the pipes are choking
Amaj7 E
The roses are out of season
C#m G#m A B E
We find red in the eyes of the bleeders we lionise
[Outro]
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Trains out my windows
C#m
Running in lines
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Sleep squared on a knuckle dreaming on
C#m G#m A Amaj7 E
Drowning softly, clowning sadly, dying badly