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Tell me Margaret, what is coming down this river?
GDCEm
You’ve been watching so much longer now than I.
AmEmD
Do you know Margaret, just what will this day deliver,
GCEm
Does it work out tooth for tooth and eye for eye?
EmDAmEmAm
They started stacking up the stones the very day that you were born.
EmDAmEm
No matter how you grew, they would tower above you.
DAmEmAmC
You could change your name, move all the way to sunny California.
AmCAm
But when you start your life anew, does that long shadow follow you?
EmGDGCDC
Who was it Margaret, that chose to resurrect you here for me, in scattered lines of poetry,
Em
This distant, wistful girl I see reflected in your eyes?
CEmDC
Forgive me Margaret, all the ways I am mistaken, all the liberties I’ve taken,
CEm
I’ve projected you in costumes I don’t think were quite your size.
DAmEm
Now here I’m climbing up these stones a hundred years from where you were born,
DAmEm
Looking for a song that could take me to you.
DAmEmDC
I have traced these roads, drove past your home in Burbank, California,
AmCD
But you were not inside you’ve found a better place to hide.
AmCEm
And tell me Margaret, when I’m gone, what will I want,
CDC
To be left at the bottom of a garbage bin, or dusted off and pulled up onto stage?
EmGDC
Will it please me when someone lights a candle and says my name?
CDEmD
Will I say leave me in my pyramid, blow out the flame and close the lid,
CAm
This story’s done, why don’t we turn the page?
[Interlude]
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At the bottom of a garbage bin x12
EmDC
Leave me in my pyramid x2
EmDC
Will it please me when someone lights a candle and says my name? x2
Em D C x2
EmDC
Will it please me when someone lights a candle and says my name? x4
EmDC
Leave me in my pyramid x2
EmDC
Will it please me when someone lights a candle and says my name?