{title:Crisis After Crisis}
{st:Verlaines}
# From: Juvenilia
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# Guitar arrangement by Keith Waclena <k-waclena@uchicago.edu>
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{define:Asus4 0 0 3 2 0 0 -}
{define:Asus4/B 0 0 0 2 0 0 -}
{define:C/A 0 0 1 0 2 0 -}
{define:C/B 0 0 1 0 2 2 -}
{define:Cviii 8 0 1 0 2 3 0}
{define:Em/G 0 3 0 0 2 2 0}
{define:Fi 0 0 2 2 2 0 0}
{define:Fviii 8 0 2 2 2 0 0}
{define:G/B 0 3 0 0 0 2 3}
{define:G/D 0 3 3 0 0 2 3}


[Cviii]         [Fviii]        [Cviii]        [Fi]

The [C]party went [Em/G]fine -- [F] till you arrived[C]
I [C/A]felt a compulsion [C/B]to [C]leave ... my [G]senses
[C]I saw in your [Em/G]eyes you thought [F] you were the great reason [C]why
The [C/A]moment you came you [C/B]thought [C]you butchered my [G]evening

Well [F]if I get drunk, well [C]that's all right
[F]If I sleep on the [C]floor all night
[F]Don't think you're the [C]great reason why
I've got my [G/D]guts in a vice[G/B]             [C]
[F]Save your sympat[C]hetic gloats
I [F]ain't chain smoking or [C]drinking your toast
[F]You ain't the one who's [C]hurting me most
It's [G/D]me that's all[G/B]             [C]

First time I saw you, in that cluttered room
Couldn't have run for the world
But don't you see, it was more than you and me
Something else was on trial to be purged

If something could die in an afternoon
Anything else was eventually doomed
Just a question of just how soon it concluded
I'm not trying to make you feel mean
Not wearing my heart on my sleeve
Just trying to make you see
What wasn't and was is

[A]   [Asus4/B]
[A]   [Asus4/B]
[A]   [Asus4/B]
[Asus4/B]              [A]    [Asus4]

[D]Girls I've written [F#m]poetry for be[E]fore
[D]Cease to exist
[D]Your eyes just [F#m]bleed be[E]fore the sun
[D]Love's slashed her wrists
So I [D]write of a girl from [F#m]who knows where
With [E]dark brown skin and [E]Durer's hair
[D]Who knows what [F#m]love, what hate that [E]lies
Behind those [D]saddened violet eyes