Dream Café Chords by Greg Brown

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[Bb] _ _ [F] You were the woman in the blue mask, standing there beside [Bb] your dress. _
All the things I wanted from you, I never [C] could express.
_ _ [F] I thought I saw you once in Munich, but you slipped away.
I'm in the corner with the coffee, _ at the dream cafe.
[C] _ _ _ [Bb] _ _
[F] _ _ _ [Bb] _ [F] _ _
_ [Bb] _ [F] For once I didn't say anything stupid.
My lover never once [Bb] looked bored.
Soldiers [F] come and smear her lipstick, like the last day of the war.
_ _ [Bb] [F] The band divided up the money, but the drummer could [Bb] not stay.
He said he's gonna meet us [F] later, at the dream cafe.
[C] _ _ _ _ _
[F] _ _ _ [Bb] _ [F] _ _
_ _ _ When you turned from the window, in your [Bb] worn out slip.
You put your [F] eyes to my fingers, while the ceiling [C] dripped.
_ _ [Gm] [F] I just could not believe you.
I heard a motorcycle [Bb] pull away. _
Yes I'll meet you after [F] midnight, at the dream [C] cafe. _ _ _ _
_ [F] _ _ [Bb] _ [G] _ _
_ [Bb] _ _ [F] There's flowers now on Lynn Street, and a new [Bb] moon just above.
They tore [F] down all the houses, where we used to [C] make love.
_ [D] _ [F] But they'd been long abandoned, when we went [Bb] there anyway. _
And I can [F] still smell the lilacs, in the corner of the dream cafe.
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_ [F] _ _ [Bb] _ _ [F] _
_ _ _ [F] We've only been fighting ten years, do you really [Bb] have to go? _
[F] Couldn't you reconsider, and do it real, [C] real slow?
_ [D] _ [F] I like living with you, I don't care [Bb] what you say.
I don't care who you meet, at the dream [C] cafe. _ _ _ _
[C] _ _ _ [Bb] _ _ [F] _
_ _ [Gm] _ [F] Your eyes roll back to midnight, lost in [Bb] a fantasy. _
I heard [F] you cry out someone's name, and maybe it was [C] me.
_ _ [Gm] [F] But later as we're walking, _ you seem so [Bb] far away.
Am I the man you thought you met, at the dream [C] cafe? _ _ _ _
[C] _ _ _ [Bb] _ _ [F] _
_ _ _ I've come down with a sickness, _ I thought you [Bb] were the cure.
But [F] passion seems to promise more, than friendship can [C] endure.
_ _ [F] You spelled it out in black and white, my eyes saw [Bb] shades of grey.
And so I sit [F] alone tonight, at the dream [C] cafe. _ _ _ _
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_ _ [Dm] _ [F] Heat lightning in the mirror, and the thunder [Bb] cries out loud.
I could be to [F] you, and you could be to me, just another [C] face in the crowd.
_ _ [F] The plane don't leave till midnight, _ come with [Bb] me today.
There'll be plenty of [F] time to be alone, at the dream [C] cafe.
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