He plays F - 033211 Intro : C, F, C, F C F C First you burned your own house down F G C Then you sold the ashes to the clown F G C Am Who painted his brow with thunderclouds F G And pulled flowers out of his mouth C F C Then you grabbed the bouquet and flew F G C From everything that asked to much of you F G C Am But the future gives birth to both sorrow and mirth F G It don't matter what you say or do C F C And now, you pray for a dry canteen F G C So you can dare an empty sky to rain F G C Am Then you shake your fist, you can't resist F G Does anybody feel your pain? F G C You're alone and you can't go home again F G C F They look for you in the leaves of magazines, C F C F G In picaresque stories, in penny arcade portraits of Lauren Bacall C G C F While I look for you in the dye of canceled stamps, C F C F G In the panic of sirens, in the vanishing kite strings of airplane exhaust F G C But nobody can catch the arsonist Enjoy.