Elsas Song

A C#m I can hear the cannons calling G# C#m As though across a dream C#m C#m And I can smell the smoke of Hell E G# In every stitch and seam A C#m And like flowers, the bodies tumble G# C#m Around this muddied lot C#m C#m I cannot hear them scream G# C#m ‘Forget me not.’ A C#m Your voice it carries over G# C#m The hubbub and the hum C#m C#m And it paints the sky and circles high E G# Like the beating of a drum C#m C#m You will scream ‘I won’t forget you’ G# C#m But I’ll cover my cold ears C#m C#m It cannot be a lie G# C#m If no-one hears. A C#m Cos although you say good day to me G# C#m I know I don’t belong C#m C#m And although you hold my hand and say E G# ‘I love you’, you are wrong. A C#m Because love does not exist here G# C#m In this garden there’s no feeling A C#m And you say the words so often G# C#m That I barely know the meaning A C#m And when all the flowers are rotten G# C#m And all the cannons shot C#m C#m I’ll scream, but you won’t hear G# C#m ‘Forget me not’ A C#m And in years to come you’ll wander G# C#m To the place up on our hill C#m C#m And then you’ll cry to our painted sky E D#7/G# ‘I loved him then, I love him still’. A C#m And you’ll strew some sage and lilies, G# C#m And roses where I rot A C#m Of all the flowers you picked, A C#m I knew you would forget G# C#m Forget-me-nots.