Proclamations

| Cm | Cm | Cm | Cm | | Cm | Cm | Cm | Cm A# | Cm D# Time has not been kind to me Cm D# As it has been to you Cm D# Yet the beauty shifts inside of me Fm A# It doesn’t leave, it just moves G# I’m not one for proclamations Cm A# But we are desperate ones D# A# Cm Desire outlines all of us D# A# Cm To go wandering after the dusk D# A# Cm Give every gift, give even blood Fm A# B And say, ‘hey hey honey, is this enough?’ Cm D# With all the time that has been spent Cm D# Some say might I’ve a poisoned mind Cm D# And when I showed my crooked teeth Fm A# I am smiling, left behind Cm D# Yet when you push me back into Cm D# The home I humbly made Cm D# We show a kind of loveliness Fm A# B That for each other we have saved | Cm | D# | Cm | D# | | Cm | D# | Fm | A# B | Cm D# I’m not one to intuit the endings Cm D# I’ve heard eventually come Cm D# Yet words spoken on dark days and Sundays Fm A# Say there may never be even one G# I’m not one for recitations Cm A# So let me say this once D# A# Cm Desire outlines all of us D# A# Cm To go wandering after the dusk D# A# Cm Give every gift, give even blood Fm A# B And say, ‘hey hey honey, is this enough?’ | Cm | D# | Cm | D# | | Cm | D# | Fm | A# B | | Cm | D# | Cm | D# | | Cm | D# | Fm | A# B | Cm |