Dar Williams - Mark Rothko Song Chords

[Intro]
D#m
F# C#7
 
[Verse 1]
     D#m              D#dim
The blue it speaks so full
               G#m            G#m7
It's like the beauty one can barely stand
   D#m                     A#7
Or too much things dropped in your hand
               G#m             A#7
And there's a green like the peace
         D#m        B
In your heart, sometimes
                                       A#7
Painted underneath the sheets of ashy snow
                                               D#m        B
And there's a blue like where the urban angels go, very bright
                  G#m/B       D#m         B
Now the Calder mobile tips a biomorphic sphere
                                                              F#  C#7
Then it swings its dangling pieces 'round to other paintings here
 
 
[Verse 2]
        D#m         D#dim
Your behavior is so male
               G#m              G#m7
It's like you can't explain yourself to me
   D#m              A#7
I think I'll ask Renoir to tea
          G#m           A#7         D#m           B
For his flowers are as real as they are, all the time
                                      A#7
And the sunlight sets the furniture aglow
                                      D#m
It's a pleasant time as far as people go
         B
How far do they go?
                     G#m/B           D#m          B
Well his roses are perfect and his words have no wings
                                                      F#   C#7
I know what he can give me and I like to know these things
 
[Interlude]
D#m
F# C#7
 
[Verse 3]
  D#m              D#dim
I met her at the funeral
            G#m                G#m7
She said I don't know what he meant to me
        D#m             A#7
I just know he affected me
      G#m      A#7        D#m       B
An effect not unlike his art, I believe
                                      A#7
The service starts and we are in the know
                                    D#m
He had so much to say, but more to show
                B
And ain't that true of life?
                  G#m/B       D#m           B
So we weep for a person who lived at great cost
                                                          F#  C#7
And we barely knew his powers 'til we sensed that we had lost
 
[Verse 4]
   D#m                D#dim
A friend and I in a museum room
     G#m
She says, "Look at Mark Rothko's side
         D#m             A#7
Did you know about his suicide?
                 G#m         A#7         D#m
Some folks were born with a foot in the grave
         B
But not me, of course"
                                           A#7
And she smiles, as if to say we're in the know
                                           D#m    B
Then she names a coffee place where we can go, uptown
                       G#m/B             D#m         B
Now the painting is desperate, but the crowds wash away
                                                   F#
In a world of kind pedestrians who've seen enough today
 
[Outro]
C#7 D#m
C#7 D#m
C#7 D#m