Chords for Persephone in the Garden

_ _ _ _ _ [F] _ _ _
_ _ [Bb] _ _ [Gm] _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ [Bb] I, _ I [F] gazed upon, _ _ [Bb] observed, _ _ Aubrey [G] faltered, _ _ [Bb] lightened.
_ _ She [C] moved so slow, [F] it taxed my [Dm] feeble mind, [Gm] and I waited [G] impatient for something to [Bb] come around.
_ Did you know I was [C] there?
Did you know what I knew [Bb] _ about?
How, [G] how long?
_ _ How [Bb] long?
Did I stand in the [C] garden, with my breath [F] against the leaves, as [Bb] the trees bowed down,
and weeds [G] would gather round my legs up to [Bb] my knees?
How, [C] how _ long?
_ [F] _ _ [Bb] _ _
_ _ _ [A] _ _ _ _ [Bb]
I, _ I gazed [C] into your [Em] eyes [F] that day.
[Bb] You [G] promised you could lie forever [Bb] this way.
Your hand [C] and mine, and the stars singing [Bb] our names, and I waited _ [G] impatient for something
to come [Bb] around.
Did you know I [C] _
was there?
Did you know we were [F] fading? _ _
How, how [Em] long?
[G] _ How, [Bb] how long?
Did we lie in the soil, [C] with our arms and legs [Bb] tangled up like the weeds and the branches
of the [G] trees that bound our souls and necks to the [F] ground below? _ _
How, how [G] long?
[C] _ _ _ _ [F] _
_ _ _ [Bb] How [Gm] long? _ _
[Am] _ _ [Bb] Didn't mean to take you down, [C] didn't mean to take you down, I thought you'd want to stay. _
I thought we [G] would be fine, whatever _ [Bb] _
_ _ [G] was dark.
[C] Didn't know the world was dark until you came, and you wilted with [G] the lack of sun.
_ [Bb] Falling prey _ to [C] the _ weight and [G]
disarray.
_ _ _ _ _ _ [A] _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ [Am] _
_ _ _ _ [Bb] _ _ _ _
_ [Gbm] How long?
_ _ [Bb] How long?
You assumed that [G] I could [C] make, you [Em] feel it was worth it, but all [F] I ever did was drag
[Bb] you down [G] and bring you in and out through [Bb] hell again.
My guess of [C] light and spring and all [Bb] things _ good.
[G] How long?
_ How [Bb] long?
Before you break down and fly [G] _ [Em] away with your [Bb] spirit and mine and draw and leave [Bb] me below
with all [G] the fates and shades and the river passing [Bb] by.
_ _ _ _ [D] _ _
But I [F] never could blame [Bb] you. _ _ _
[Gm] _ No, I never could blame you. _ _