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Flowers Grave Tab

by Tom Waits


Mayby the most beautiful ballad my hero Waits has ever made.
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Someday the silver moon and I will go to dreamland
                                        
I will close my eyes and wake up there in dreamland
                                              
And Tell me who will put flowers on a flower's grave?
             
Who will say a prayer?

                                
Will I meet a China rose there in dreamland?
                           
Or does love lie bleeding in dreamland?
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Are these days forever and always?

                 
And if we are to die tonight
                          
Is there a moonlight up ahead?
                    
And if we are to die tonight
                 
Another rose will bloom

          
For a faded rose
                                  
Will I be the one that you save?
             
I love when it showers
              
But no one puts flowers
           
On a flower's grave
 
                     
As one rose blooms and another will die 
                       
It's always been that way
             
I remember the showers
              
But no one puts flowers
          
On a flower's grave 

               
And if we are to die tonight
                           
Is there a moonlight up ahead?
             
I remember the showers
              
But no one puts flowers
          
On a flower's grave