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Inflamatory Writ
Joanna Newsom
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D G A D
Oh where is your inflammatory writ
G A D
Your text that would inside a light be lit
Our music deserving devotion unswerving
Cried do I deserve her with unflagging fervour
G A D
Well no we do not if we cannot get over it
GM7 Bm
But what�s it mean when suddenly we�re spent tell me true
GM7 Bm
Ambition came and reared it�s head and went far from you
GM7
Even molluscs have weddings though solemn and leaden
Bm
But you dirge for the dead and take no jam on your bread
D G A D
Just a supper of salt and a waltz through your empty bed
F A
And all at once it came to me
Bb F
And I wrote in hunch til 4:30
Cm Gm A D
But that vestal light it burns out with the night
G7 Dm
In spite of all the time that we spent on it
Bb F
On one bedraggled ghost of a sonnet
G D
While outside the wild boars root
Bm A
Without bending a bough underfoot
C G
Oh it breaks my heart I don�t know how they do it
So don�t ask me
D G A D
And as for my inflammatory writ
G A D
I wrote it and I was not inflamed one bit
GM7
Advice from the master derailed that disaster
Bm
He said hand that pen over to me poetaster
GM7
While �cross the great plains keening lovely and awful
Bm
You ulate the lost great American novels
D G A D
An unlawful lot left to stutter and freeze floodlit
C G A D
But at least they didn�t run to their undying credit