IntroAmEFDmAmE
All the rowboats in the paintings
FDm
They keep trying to row away
AmE
And the captains' worried faces
FDm
Stay contorted and staring at the waves
AmE
They'll keep hanging in their gold frames
FDm
For forever, forever and a day
AmE
All the rowboats in the oil paintings
FDm
They keep trying to row away, row away
AmE
Hear them whispering French and German
FDm
Dutch, Italian, and Latin
AmE
When no one's looking I touch a sculpture
FDm
Marble, cold, and soft as satin
AmE
But the most special are the most lonely
FDm
God, I pity the violins
AmE
In glass coffins they keep coughing
FDm
They've forgotten, forgotten how to sing, how to sing
AmE
First there's lights out, then there's lock up
FDm
Masterpieces serving maximum sentences
AmE
It's their own fault for being timeless
FDm
There's a price to pay and a consequence
AmE
All the galleries, the museums
FDm
Here's your ticket, welcome to the tombs
AmE
They're just public mausoleums
FDm
The living dead fill every room
AmE
But the most special are the most lonely
FDm
God, I pity the violins
AmE
In glass coffins they keep coughing
FDm
They've forgotten, forgotten how to sing
AmE
They will stay there in their gold frames
FDm
For forever, forever and a day
AmE
All the rowboats in the oil paintings
FDm
They keep trying to row away, row away
AmE
First there's lights out, then there's lock up
FDm
Masterpieces serving maximum sentences
AmE
It's their own fault for being timeless
FDm
There's a price to pay and a consequence
AmE
All the galleries, the museums
FDm
They will stay there forever and a day
AmE
All the rowboats in the oil paintings
FDm
They keep trying to row away, row away
AmE
All the rowboats in the oil paintings
FDm
They keep trying to row away, row away
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