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Some Slender Rest Tab

by Two Gallants


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Capo: 2nd fret


                       
And I’m a go make my bed 
                   
Tuck in the other side 
                           
These confessions are mine 
                      
But I’ll not claim a word 


This restless parade 
                     
Yes I watched it go by
 			  
Through the cracks in my palm 
                
Seen them all gone 
                   
Some sequence of lives 


Well she calls out alone 
                      
With the pain in her voice 
                   
It’s the wound of betrayal 
                     
It’s the weapon of choice 

                      
Left her heart on display 
                   
Though that she’ll deny 
                
Two tattoos of skin 
                   
One of ice one of tin 
                           
For the days have gone by 

                       
But I ain’t one to reminisce 
                                     
But close my heart and clench my fists 

                      
Now the days swiftly pass 
                        
With the chest full of fear 
                      
Here the minutes are hours
                     
But the moments are years 


                       
And old acquaintances passed 
              
In trios, in pairs 
                         
And if they stay or they go 
                  
One struggles to know 
                        
One struggles to care 

                          
But out beyond the Ten Tree walls 
                              
The wind blows hard the highway crawls 

                                
And if you should pass the James Hotel 
                           
Please stop in for I knew you well 
                     
But that was oh so long ago 
                                
And I never learned how to let go 

                                                      
But when you fear your own faults 
                         
And you’re sick of this life 
                         
When you’re reckless of hand 
                   
And trembling the knife 
                           
And all your doors prefer locks
                        
And your death prefers spoons 
                                        
Why wouldn’t you wait one last laugh at fate 
                   
Forever’s too soon 

                              
But across the field death bell knells 
                                  
Listen close hear the toll tell 

                        
To run and tell my darling true 
            
My breath is short 
            
My days are few 
             
So please come down 
            
And take my hand 
          
My last demand 
                          
And lead me to some slender rest 
                              
And please dismiss what I confess 

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