Dead and Lovely Chords by Tom Waits

[Start]

[Intro]

[Verse]
Cm                            
■  She was a middle class girl
                    Cm  
She was in over her head
Fm                                Cm             
■  She thought she would stand up in the deep end
                      Cm   
He had a bullet proof smile
                Cm  
He had money to burn
Fm                                     Cm    
■  She thought she had the moon in her pocket
              Cm  
But now she's dead
         Cm  
She's so dead
Ab7         Cm       G7     Cm 
■   Forever dead and lovely now
Fm Db7                      Fm       Db  
■  I've always been told to remember this
Cm             Ab7               D7
■  Don't let a ■   fool kiss you ■ 
                G7  
Never marry for love
               Cm     
He was hard to impress
                           Gsus4
He knew everyone's secrets ■    
   Fm                  Cm               
He wore her on his arm just like jewelry
         Cm             
He never gave but he got
                 Cm   
He kept her on a leash


[Chorus]
Fm                                Cm            
■  He's not the kind of wheel you fall asleep at
              Cm  
But now she's dead
Ab7 Cm           Ab
■   Forever dead ■ 
Ab7 Cm               G7     Cm 
■   Forever dead and lovely now
            Db      Fm    
Come closer ■  look deeper
              Db  
You've fallen fast
Cm             Abmaj7 Ab7        D7        G7 
■  Just like a ■      plane on a ■  stormy sea


[Verse]
                       G7
She made up someone to be
                         G7     
She made up somewhere to be from
Fm                                                Cm               
■  This is one business in the world where that's no problem at all
                   Cm  
Everything that is left
                    Cm   
They will only plow under


[Chorus]
Fm                                 Cm   Gsus4
■  Soon every one you knew will be gone ■    
Cm                   
■  And now she's dead
Ab7         Cm   Ab7
■   Forever dead ■  
Cm               Ab7    G7 Cm 
Forever dead and lovely ■  now


[Solo]

[Verse]
Fm Cm                   
■  ■  But now she's dead
Ab7         Cm  
■   Forever dead
Ab7                  Cm     G7  Cm
■   Forever dead and lovely now ■ 


[Chorus]
Fm Db                       Fm          Db7 
■  ■  I've always been told to remember this
Cm             Ab7               D7
■  Don't let a ■   kiss fool you ■ 
                G7  
Never marry for love
                         Cm
Everything has its price ■ 
                   G     Cm
Everything has its place ■ 


[Verse]
Fm                                        Cm       
■  What's more romantic then dying in the moonlight
    Cm                          
Now they're all watching the sea
                Cm             
What's lost can never be broken


[Chorus]
Fm                                    Cm        
■  Her roots were sweet but they were so shallow
              Cm  
And now she's dead
Ab         Cm  
■  Forever dead
Ab Cm               Ab7    G7 Cm 
■  Forever dead and lovely ■  now
              Cm  
And now she's dead
Ab7 Cm          
■   Forever dead
Ab7                   Cm         Ab7 G7 Cm
■   And she's so dead and lovely now ■  ■ 


[End]