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The Music Box Tab

by Ed Harcourt


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The music box is all that's left in the empty house
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Must've left it when they moved out
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In a hurry to flee the town
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Armoured tanks broke through all of the soldier's ranks
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You can be sure they weren't shooting blanks
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From bodies laid out on the ground


                  
There's a song your father had sung
                     
When you were just knee high
            
Now a soldier plays the same tune
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From the toy you left behind
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Something to remind you
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Something to remind you


Burnt to black there's a face you don't recognize
Just a doll with hollow eyes
And a feeling you can't describe
In factories, toys are made by the companies
Who create our killing machines
So the planet can rest at ease

There's a story you had to hear
When you couldn't sleep at all
Now the pages are burning
In some sad unholy war

Something to remind you
Something to remind you
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Something to remind you
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The ones you left behind you

Something to remind you
Something to remind you
Something to remind you
The ones you left behind you

The music box plays a song that I used to love
But now I can't remember what it was
For my memory has faded


*Note the ascending bass line at the end of the second chorus the leads into a 
 The last quiet verse uses the same chords as the first verse but fades out on a couple alternate 
chords that I can't seem to make out.  Any suggestions?

Also check out my chords for Ed's song, "Until Tomorrow Then"