Chords
C: x32010
Em: 022000
Dm: xx0231
Am: x02210
F: 133211
G: 320033
Intro
[C] [Em] [Dm] [Am] x2
Verse 1
[C] [Em] [Dm] [Am]
Is it romantic how all my elegies eulogize me?
[C] [Em] [Dm]
I'm not cut out for all these cynical clones
[Am]
These hunters with cell phones
Chorus
[Em] [F]
Take me to the lakes, where all the poets went to die
[Am] [G/B]
I don't belong and, my beloved, neither do you
[Em] [F]
Those Windermere peaks look like a perfect place to cry
[G]
I'm setting off, but not without my muse
Verse 2
[C] [Em] [Dm]
What should be over burrowed under my skin
[Am]
In heart-stopping waves of hurt
[C] [Em] [Dm]
I've come too far to watch some namedropping sleaze
[Am]
Tell me what are my words worth
Chorus
[Em] [F]
Take me to the lakes, where all the poets went to die
[Am] [G/B]
I don't belong and, my beloved, neither do you
[Em] [F]
Those Windermere peaks look like a perfect place to cry
[G]
I'm setting off, but not without my muse
Bridge
[C] [Em]
I want auroras and sad prose
[Dm] [Am] [C]
I want to watch wisteria grow right over my bare feet
[Em] [Dm]
'Cause I haven't moved in years
[Am]
And I want you right here
[C] [Em] [Dm]
A red rose grew up out of ice frozen ground
[Am]
With no one around to tweet it
[C] [Em]
While I bathe in cliffside pools
[Dm] [Am]
With my calamitous love and insurmountable grief
Chorus
[Em] [F]
Take me to the lakes, where all the poets went to die
[Am] [G/B]
I don't belong and, my beloved, neither do you
[Em] [F]
Those Windermere peaks look like a perfect place to cry
[G]
I'm setting off, but not without my muse
[C]
No, not without you
