The lakes (video)

C - Em - Dm - Am (2x)

C Em Dm Am

1. Isn’t it romantic how all my elegies eulogize me ?

C Em Dm

I'm not cut out for all these cynical clones,

Am

these hunters with cell phones.

Em F

Take me to the lakes, where all the poets went to die,

Am G

I don't belong and, my beloved, neither do you.

Em F

Those Windermere peaks look like a perfect place to cry,

G

I'm setting off, but not without my muse.

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2. What should be over, burrowed under my skin,

Am

in heart-stopping waves of hurt ?

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I've come too far to watch some name dropping sleaze,

Am

tell me, what are my words worth ?

+ CHORUS

C Em

+ I want auroras and sad prose,

Dm Am C

I want to watch wisteria grow right over my bare feet,

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because I haven't moved in years, and I want you right here.

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3. A red rose grew up out of ice frozen ground

Am

with no one around to tweet it.

C Em

While I bathe in cliffside pools

Dm Am

with my calamitous love and insurmountable grief.

Em F

Take me to the lakes, where all the poets went to die,

Am G

I don't belong and, my beloved, neither do you.

Em F

Those Windermere peaks look like a perfect place to cry,

G

I'm setting off, but not without my muse.

+ repeat CHORUS

C

+ No, not without you.

+ C - Em - Dm - Am (2x) ….

(orig. = capo 2nd) (Taylor Swift)