[Verse 1]
E
Love descended in the water
G D
In the breaking of the mother-daughter
E
Father-son and lines of genes
G D
Rip and crease and keep things clean
E
In the teeth and in the tether
G D
In the backwards-beating weather
E
To the endpoint, to the hollow
G D
Two loves' labours lost in colour
[Hook]
A E
Lost in dreams and crumpled pride
A D A E
The night my piano upped and died, died, died
[Verse 2]
E
Love came down for many years
G D
And lost her teeth with raindrop tears
E
Swelled her woodwork, pushed her pedals
G D
She went home without a medal
E
She went down down, all the way
G D
Now she plays an alleway
E
Now she cuts her shape with debt
G D
And now she's past it, past her best
[Hook]
A E
Lost in dreams and crumpled pride
A D A E
The night my piano upped and died, died, died
[Verse 3]
E
Now she's past and all alone
G D
She laughs a drainpipe down the phone
E
Somewhere in the distant nether
G D
I can hear her off the tether
E
Off the hook of ones and twos
G D
Now she really sings the blues
E
Now she dances at a mess
G D
[Hook]
A E
Lost in dreams and crumpled pride
A D A E
