juliet

INTRO: E Em E
A: E C#m7 G#m7 A
B: C#m7 C+/E F#7 A
C: G#m7 A E F#m7 A
OUTRO: G#m7 A
A E/G# F#m7

The year the Smiths broke up he was sleeping alone
Above a costume warehouse, no TV no phone
They had him stippling stage sets to pay off his loans
They gave him the job though he was accident prone

Once he was sewing sequins on Juliet’s sleeve
She was wiping her eyes saying she didn’t want to leave
See, Romeo insisted she be cut from the lead
After she fumbled her lines during the balcony scene

Crouched in the fly space or out in the wings
During Carmen, Lohengrin, Faust or the Ring
He witnessed her float as if on silvery strings
And bow as the footlights were darkening

He was dying wigs one night from blonde to brunette
When who should appear but a teary Juliet
And playing his heartstrings like a marionette
She showed him an evening that he’d never forget

These jet black floorboards carried her home
Verona to Denmark, Padua, Rome
Here they did lay her where the spot lights glowed
Made her a tombstone of Styrofoam

And oh she faded away just faded away
As Isolde comes down the painted waterway 
As Benoit demands Marcello pay
As a flutter in the strings dies away
Day after day

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