The Bridge
(Engel)

	
	
	Am                        G
	I've watched her from the river banks
	 
	  Dm                Em
	I knew her when she danced with dreams
	 
	      Bb                  Am
	White doves were there to dress her hair
	 
	    Bb         E
	And so was Madelaine.
	
	
	 
	   Am                 G
	At night the peoples' faces danced
	 
	     Dm               Em
	Like pearls colliding on the breasts
	 
	   Bb               Am
	Of Fat Marie, whose thunder laugh
	 
	    Esus4  E           Am
	Was just a thread from crying
	
	
	 
	    F                   C
	Her sailors stained her cobblestones
	 
	     F        Em7      F      Em7
	With wine and piss and deft desires
	 
	    F                   C
	And sometimes blood for Madelaine
	 
	      Bb               E
	Whose laughter was the night
	 
	A                          G
	Her girls would lift their dresses high
	 
	    D           C         D        C
	And breathe the stars and kiss the sky
	 
	      A                 G
	She'd smother them with whispers then
	 
	  F                   Esus4 E
	Embrace them with her sighs
	
	
	 
	  Am              G
	Before the bottle dulled my eyes
	 
	    Dm           Em
	and made me so I couldn't stand
	 
	    Bb          Am
	I'd overact and play the clown
	 
	     Bb       E      Am
	When Madelaine would cry
	
	
	 
	    F                C
	And now I watch from river banks
	 
	  F        Em7       F   Em7
	I watch it weave its memories
	 
	      F                     Em
	White doves turned grey and flew away
	 
	                     Am
	And so did Madelaine.
	
	
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