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From: phillip@flagstaff.princeton.edu (Phillip Charles Saunders)
Subject: CRD: The Poisoned Rose, Elvis Costello
The Poisoned Rose
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(N.C.) Eb Ab
The poisoned rose
Eb Ab
That you gave to me
Eb C
It left me half alive
F Bb B9 Bb Eb
And half in ecstasy
Eb7
But if half of your love
Ab7 Adim7
Is all I can win
Eb C7
Give me just a fraction
F7 Bb Eb Ab7 Eb
But no more medicine
Bb Bb+ Eb Ab
The poisoned rose
Eb Ab
On a Valentine card
Eb C
That you take straight to the heart
F Bb B9 Bb Eb
That you call my junkyard
Eb7
But if all I can do
Ab7 F7
is save pieces of you
Eb
The piece of your mind
Eb7 Ab7
The piece of your heart
Adim7
Didn't tear me apart
F7
Like the poisoned rose
Gm7 Bb7 Ab
I received from you
Db9+11
I don't know
Eb
How we came to grow
Bb Eb F7
Into this very sad affair
Everytime we do the decent thing
B9 Bb9
Somebody spikes the drink
And a single becomes a pair
(N.C.) Eb Bb7
The poisoned rose
Eb7 Ab7
That you wear at your best
Eb C7
That I keep pressed between the white sheets
F7 Bb B9 Bb Eb
Where you lie half undressed
I threw away my shirt and shoes
Eb7 Ab7
You looked and I dived in
F7
It's just you and me now
Eb
'Cause I threw away the gin
I threw away your alibis
Eb7 Ab7
And all your worn-out clothes
I threw myself upon the floor
Adim7
But I couldn't throw away
Eb Ab
This poisoned rose
Eb Ab
This poisoned rose
(N.C.) Eb
This poisoned rose
