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This is my first tab - felt I needed to give after enjoying everyone else's efforts.
Great underrated Elvis song - play with menacing 3/4 on the verses and enjoy.
In an anonymous rendez-vous where the forbidden lovers repair
They're burning down another damned candle
they're melting the tables and chairs
Beneath them applause from the balcony
whenever they accomplish making love
Other times they thought they heard laughter
F#m G G/F#/E (on sixth string to Em chord)
coming from the balcony above
She lies to his right and she carelessly recites
All of her brand new appetites
She seems brittle and small it don't sound like her at all
Since she came back to him after the fall
She said "You never visit the countryside
So I've made you a country to order"
She put up a little tent in the bedroom
Crickets played on a tape recorder
The ceiling was festooned with phosphorus stars
She noticed his skin turning cold
Burning all his clothes on the bonfire
F#m G G/F#/E (on sixth string to Em chord)
Relax, she whispered, and tightened the blindfold
She lies to his right and she carelessly recites
Fm# C#m
All of her brand new appetites
She seems brittle and small it don't sound like her at all
Since she came back to him after the fall
"You've changed, but not for the better babe
I'd tell you why but what's the use
'Cause it's the same kind of pity
A drunkard gives as his excuse
You were sharp and ideal as a bobby-pin
Now your eyes are deserted and quiet
We both look like those poor shattered mannequins
F#m G G/F#/E (on sixth string to Em chord)
Thrown through the window in a riot"
She lies in his arms and without any qualms
Revels in shallow delight
She seems brittle and small it don't sound like her at all
Since she came back to him after the fall
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