One-Night Marriage

F#m Bm F#m E D C#m D E C#m F#m Bm Chances are in this F#m fine hotel something's amiss E the hallway's filled D with silence of a knife. Bm Lovers in the snow F#m all the true that true can go, E we both know C#m you're someone else's wife. F#m With the windows shut E F#m and the clothes we cut E to gobble up the breast of night. F#m And no ring comes through E F#m when it's me and you E in this church, this bed, alight. A E If it's a one-night marriage A C#m F#m replace the vows with strident moans, C#m your wedding dress with F#m E the sheets of queens dethroned, if you're up, A E up to this one-night marriage A C#m F#m replace the children with the stars C#m that shine upon us F#m E from the ceiling of the bar. You know babe, D not even death can part us, E C#m F#m it is the dawn that will instead. F#m D E 2x D E D Bm But December rules F#m in this castled, frozen room E we shiver with the glasses D and our names. Bm Lovers dressed in flames F#m melt the frost on this champagne, E we're tamers, C#m or we're the beast to tame. F#m I'll be counting moles E F#m or the moons you stole E from the secret, old breast of night, F#m Be the sweet skin wars E F#m with my soul on yours a kind of altar E for wrong and right. A E If it's a one-night marriage A C#m F#m replace the vows with strident moans, C#m your wedding dress with F#m E the sheets of queens dethroned, if you're up, A E up to this one-night marriage A C#m F#m replace the children with the stars C#m that shine upon us F#m E from the ceiling of the bar. You know babe, D not even death can part us, E C#m D it is the dawn that will instead. E C#m ah ah... ah F#m D E 3x F#m D C#m F#m