Minneapolis Lyrics

Minneapolis by Lucinda Williams from the album World Without Tears
Intro G/G/G/G/G/G/G/G
Ive been waiting for you to come back
C G since you left Minneapolis
Snow covers the streetlamps and the
windowsills
The buildings and the brittle crooked trees
Dead leaves of December, thin skinned and
splintered
Never gotten used to this bitter winter
Ive been wasted angry and sad since you
left Minneapolis
I wish my thoughts were pure like the
driven snow
Like the heavens and the springs virgin
buds
But they strangled me with their sin, fill
me up with poison
Black clouds have covered up the sun again
I can always trace it back to that night in
Minneapolis
Here on the seventh floor in a room I cant
call mine
Deadbolt on the door, do not disturb sign
Shaking and trembling
On the clean white linen
Slivers of starlight danced across the
ceiling
A dozen yellow roses all thats left in
Minneapolis
I wish Id never seen your face or heard
your voice
Youre a bad pain in my gut, I wanna spit
you out
Open up this wound again, let my blood flow
red and thin
Into the glistening, into the whiteness
Into the melting snow of Minneapolis
(Thanks to Eddie Smith for tabs)