Take This Longing

C


[Verse 1]
Bb                      F
Many men have loved the bells
Bb                    F
You fastened to the rein
Dm              Gm
And everyone who wanted you
Dm                      C    Dm       C
They found what they will always want again
Em                         Am
Your beauty lost to you yourself
     Em                 Am
Just as it was lost to them


[Chorus]
    F                         C
Oh take this longing from my tongue
    F                                     C
Whatever useless things these hands have done
 F                             C
Let me see your beauty broken down
Em             F              C
Like you would do for one you love


[Verse 2]
Bb                    F
Your body like a searchlight
Bb                 F
My poverty revealed
Dm                             Gm
I would like to try your charity
Dm                C       Dm        C
Until you cry, "Now you must try my greed."
Em                      Am
And everything depends upon
     Em               Am
How near you sleep to me


[Chorus]
     F                         C
Just take this longing from my tongue
F                                   C
All the lonely things my hands have done
 F                             C
Let me see your beauty broken down
Em             F              C
Like you would do for one you love


[Verse 3]
Bb               F
Hungry as an archway
Bb                                 F
Through which the troops have passed
Dm                        Gm
I stand in ruins behind you
Dm               C        Dm                 C
With your winter clothes, your broken sandal straps
Em                           Am
I love to see you naked over there
Em                    Am
Especially from the back


[Chorus]
    F                         C
Oh take this longing from my tongue
  F                                  C
All the useless things my hands have done
 F                            C
Untie for me your hired blue gown
Em             F              C
Like you would do for one that you love


[Verse 4]
Bb                             F
You're faithful to the better man
Bb                     F
I'm afraid that he left
Dm                           Gm
So let me judge your love affair
Dm           C                 Dm                C
In this very room where I have sentenced mine to death
Em                             Am
I'll even wear these old laurel leaves
Em                        Am
That he's shaken from his head


[Chorus]
    F                         C
Just take this longing from my tongue
    F                                C
All the useless things my hands have done
 F                             C
Let me see your beauty broken down
Em             F              C
Like you would do for one you love
                F              C
Like you would do for one you love