Arethas Gold

Em Am G Em Over that new paved highway, there is a house where love was made. Em Am G D Not with screaming and touching, but with the records quietly spinning. Em Am G And it was Aretha’s gold. And it was the way you told me to just shut up and D try and enjoy myself. Em Am G But that I can never do, so now it’s ---?---blue, Oh it dreams and dreams D and dreams and dreams of you. C G C G C G Em So if you can’t treat her like a woman then treat her like a baby doll. C G C G C G Oh, and just leave her in that bedroom where he watched the summer Em tumble and fall. (guitar technically isn’t playing, just drums and effects) Em Am G Em Over the gardens, through the schools, she waits alone by a swimming pool. Em Am G D A storm is brewin’ in her soul. When did it start I like… to think… I know. Em Am Well it was the summer night, a (?sweet as night just died?) She turned the G D corner and I knew all was about to change. Em Am G And then I kissed your mouth. I felt your past somehow. Oh and your whole D life flashed before my eyes. C G C G C G Em So if you want to treat her like a woman then pick her up like a baby doll. C G C G C And rock her gently and tell her that you’re sorry and then be G D willing to let her go. C G Because you you’re as tameless as an ocean. I want to love you but Am Em commotion, oh it ravages me whole. C G Oh and me I’m as dramatic as the thunder. My lightning scares as she rolls Am Em over. Oh yes she needs to get some sleep. During C G Am Em C G Oh and you, you’ll be as famous as an ocean. They’ll try to name you but Am Em commotion, oh, it’ll ravage them whole. C G But me I’m as dramatic as the thunder. My lightning scares as she rolls Am Em over, oh yes she needs to get some sleep.