in montreal

INTRO: Eb Bb Cm Bb/C Ab Bb C7
A: F Dm F Dm F Dm F Dm
F/C Dm Eb C7
B: F Dm Bb F C F Bb F C7 F/A Bb Gm C7 Gm F
C: Db
D F+ A/E B D

A message scribbled in red:
“love, by the time you read this letter I'll be gone.”
A lover sprawled on the bed, crushed
With a gift of flowers from the neighbor’s lawn

A taxi speeds away and kicks up leaves 
Of maple rising in a restless cloud
She’s yelling to the janitor
“I'm heading off to canada now!”

And as she’s checking her bags in 
She spies a family in their sunday best
Sporting american flag pins
The father reverently staring at her chest

She pushes past them on her way to the gate
To join a line that seems to stretch for miles
Of hippies and professors
Fashionable dressers
And homophiles

Refrain:
We’ll have it all in montreal
Get on the plane there’s no time to explain
Let the others balk and say we’re insane
But we’ve only the world to gain after all
In montreal

As the earth falls away beneath
She gets to chatting with a lithe young man
Sown on his bag is a maple leaf
His unpublished novel in his other hand

He stands up suddenly and leads the cabin
In a chorus of the marsellaise
As starlight hits the plane and then
Sparkles in canadian air space

(Refrain)

Music by ballman, georgis, ham, johnson, lyrics by johnson
© 2007, '08 zubsongs. Ltd.