Shooting Rockets From The Desk Of Nights Ape

C#m B Caution, hot ashes C#m B The girl says to her first kiss C#m G#m They stuck eternity inside a bird's fist just to watch it fly C#m Just to make it go, just to let them slip away B Don't ask me how I know, I just do C#m B Night surgeon dons his robes, to take apart a fellow amateur A Well I've heard it once said; one gives what one gets G#m Oh I didn't go out into this world just to get stung by rich mans hornets C#m B Who amongst us has left these things undone? C#m B Who let these animals into my kingdom? A G#m A blind doe learns to work the rig, a once thin man turns into a pig C#m B The endless groves where my soul pukes the night away C#m The problem as I see it: I was messed up G#m On a tangent I was wrong C#m They mix them strong B And I was partial to the feeling A It's a terrible feast we've been stuffing our faces on G#m A terrible breeze from the east coming on C#m B Bearing the scent of our one hundred first kills C#m B You love her you leave her you try to achieve her C#m B But the vision that she has from the start A I've got street despair carved into my heart G#m I've got street despair carved into my heart C#m B A G#m 2x C#m B My dear didn't you hear A G#m A chorus is a thing that bears repeating C#m B And the problem as I see it is A G#m Girls stay away from that shit C#m B Saw you in Swan Lake you were great A Saw you down in Strathcona square devouring an AfterEight G#m Who cares, I didn't mean it C#m For your last encore you sawed yourself in half B It was just you and your raft and this crummy requiem A G#m Shooting rockets C#m Run or fly B At some point I had to ask why A I had to show you a world not tethered to disasters G#m But this would prove impossible, I snuck a look inside your skull and said C#m B Don't look now, but Gretchen's seeing red again A G#m C#m The truth is a thing to coax out of it shell B The truth on this you and I are going to tangle A G#m Off treacherous bliss off C#m B First you come in all sweet, and then on tiger's paws you retreat A G#m Into a darken nether shadow region, hey are they still serving that piss? C#m B A G#m Shooting rockets C#m And it'd be true what they say A Were they to say why yes I dig the scourge C#m And it'd be true what they say A Were they to say why yes I dig the scourge C#m A It's not that I quit, it's not that my poems are shit C#m A In the light of the privilege of dreams C#m A Alive she cried once now alive she screams C#m A Shooting rockets C#m Praise be the delightful muezzin tending his flock, and A C#m Praise be those alabaster hands running amok on your body A They love you in spite of your lame scene C#m A We live in darkness the light is a dream you see C#m A We live in darkness the light is a dream you see C#m We live in darkness the light is a dream C#m B Shooting rockets A G#m Shooting rockets C#m B Shooting rockets A G#m Shooting rockets C#m B Shooting rockets A G#m Shooting rockets C#m B Shooting rockets A G#m Shooting rockets