Intro
[C#]
Verse 1
[C#] [G#]
Remember once I told you about
[D#m7]
How before I heard it from your mouth
[C#] [G#] [D#m7]
My name would always hit my ears as such an awful sound
[C#] [G#]
And the soul, if that's what you'd call it
[D#m7] [C#] [G#]
Uneasy ally of the body, it felt nameless as a river
[F#] [D#m7]
Undiscovered underground
Pre-Chorus
[C#] [G#]
And the first time that you kissed me
[D#m7]
I drank dry the River Lithe
[C#] [G#] [D#m7]
The Liffey would have been softer on my stomach all the same
[C#] [G#]
But you spoke some quick new music
[D#m7]
That went so far to soothe this soul
[C#] [G#] [D#m7]
As it was and ever shall be, unearth without a name
Chorus
[C#] [G#] [D#m7]
Some part of me must have died
[C#] [G#] [F#]
The first time that you called me, "Baby"
[C#] [G#] [D#m7]
And some part of me came alive
[C#] [G#] [F#]
The first time that you called me, "Baby"
Verse 2
[C#] [G#]
These days I think I owe my life
[D#m7] [C#]
To flowers that were left here by my mother
[G#] [F#]
Ain't that like them, giftin' life to you again
[C#] [G#]
This life lived mostly underground
[D#m7]
Unknowin' either sight nor sound
[C#] [G#] [F#]
'Til reachin' up for sunlight just to be ripped out by the stem
Pre-Chorus
[C#] [G#]
Sensing only now it's dyin'
[D#m7]
Drying out, then drowning blindly
[C#] [G#]
Bloomin' forth its every colour
[F#]
In the moments it has left
[C#] [G#]
To share the space with simple living things
[D#m7] [C#] [G#]
Infinitely suffering, but fighting off like all creation
[F#]
The absence of itself, anyway
Chorus
[C#] [G#] [D#m7]
Some part of me must have died
[C#] [G#] [F#]
Each time that you called me, "Baby"
[C#] [G#] [D#m7]
But some part of me stayed alive
[C#] [G#] [F#]
Each time that you called, each time that you called
Bridge
[C#]
Come here
[G#] [D#m7]
Ooh-la-la, ooh-la-la
[C#] [G#] [F#]
Whatever keeps you around, it keeps you around
[C#] [G#] [D#m7]
Ooh-la-la, come here, ooh-la-la
[C#] [G#] [F#]
Whatever keeps you around, it keeps you around
Verse 3
[C#] [G#]
The last time it was heard out loud
[D#m7] [C#]
The perfect genius of our hands and mouths were shocked
[G#] [F#]
To resignation as the arguing declined
[C#] [G#]
When I was young I used to guess
[D#m7]
Are there limits to any emptiness?
[C#] [G#]
When was the last time
[F#]
Come here to me, when was the last time?
Chorus
[C#] [G#] [D#m7]
Some part of me must have died
[C#] [G#] [F#]
The final time you called me, "Baby"
[C#] [G#] [D#m7]
But some part of me came alive
[C#] [G#] [F#]
The final time you called me, "Baby"
