Mark Rothko Song Chords

Lyrics & chords

[Intro 1]
[Am][C]
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[Verse 1]
The [Am]blue
it speaks so full.
It's like a [Dm]beauty one can [A]barely stand.
Or [Am]too much things dropped
[E]in your hand.
And there's [Dm]a green like the [E]peace in your [Am]heart,
some[F]times.
Painted underneath
the sheets of ashy [E]snow.
And there's a blue like where the urban angels [Am]go,
very [F]bright.
Now the Calder mo[E]bile tips
[Am]a bi[F]omorphic sphere.
Then it swings its dangling pieces round
to other paint[C]ings here.
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[Verse 2]
Your beha[Am]vior is so male.
It's like you can[Dm]'t
explain your[Am]self to me.
I think I'll ask Ren[E]oir to tea.
For [Dm]his flowers are as r[E]eal as they [Am]are,
all [F]the time.
And the sunlight sets the furniture [E]aglow.
It's a pleasant time as far as people [Am]go,
how [F]far do they go?
Well his roses are [E]perfect and
his [Am]words have [F]no wings.
I know what he can give me and I like to know
[C]these things.

[Interlude 1]
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[C][G]
[Am]I met her at the funeral.

[Verse 3]
She said I [G]don't know what he meant to me.
I [Am]just know he affected [E]me.
An [Dm]effect not [E]unlike his [Am]art,
[F]I believe.
The service starts and we are in [E]the know.
He had so much to say and more [Am]to show,
and ain't [F]that true of life?
So we weep for a [E]person who
lived [Am]at great [F]cost.
And we barely knew his powers till
we sensed what we [C]had lost.

[Verse 4]
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[Am]A friend and I in a museum room.
She [Dm]says, "Look [Am]at Mark Rothko's side.
Did you know about his [E]suicide?
Some folks [Dm]were born with [E]a foot in the [Am]grave,
but [F]not me, of course."
And she smiles as if to say
we're in [E]the know.
Then she names a coffee place
where we can [Am]go, uptown.
[F]Now the painting is des[E]perate,
but [Am]the crowds wash [F]away.
In a world of kind pedestrians who've seen

[Outro 1]
enough today.
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