Standard (EADGBE)

Verse 1

I know, I know that I could live in

Whatever house you choose to build

And I will model myself on it and

Wait for you alone,

While you are out making a life for us

I will stay and watch the days go past

And I'll see how the plants advance

And they turn on what they know

Pre-chorus

Now there is rosemary where previously no rosemary was shown

They have aerials they feed from me and they grow and grow

and grow

Now I am shifting into greenery now the pipes are running bone

And you might think I was a house but I am a woman, a woman

Verse 2

"Come back, come back" before you said

"Come back so you can see

There are roses in the flowerbeds

Where there never used to be"

Chorus

And all my days are

Fading into these

Walls you made are us

But I don't want to be

the queen

in a century of sleep

Verse 3

I know, I know that I believe in

Whatever brings you joy from me

But I've swept until I couldn't sweep

And this house is still a lie

Now I have to find a dress, have to buy a dress

Have to sew the dress 'til the pieces mesh

And I don't think I'm ready yet

And I haven't got the time

Pre-chorus

Now there is rosemary where previously no rosemary was shown

They have aerials they feed from me and they grow and grow

and grow

Now I am shifting into greenery now the pipes are running bone

And you might think I was a house but I am a woman, a woman

Bridge

But you say, "don't be afraid"

And you try to explain

How the best that we can hope and hope to gain

Is to love and then be loved

Is to have and then to hold

'Til we age and then grow old

Chorus

And all my days are

Fading into these

Walls you made are us

But I don't want to be

And all my days are

Fading into these

Walls you made are us

But I don't want to be

the queen

in a century of sleep

But I know that I believe

In whatever makes you pleased

In whatever brings you joy

From me