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His Pleasure Is My Pain
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| Tabbed by | Jessica |
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| Tuning | DADEBe |
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| Capo | None |
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His Pleasure Is My Pain by Jewel
TUNING: DADEBe - Drop the bottom E to a D and the G to an E (tune to the high E string.)
VERSE:
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a man stands in the doorway like a small child angry fists
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she lies in her bed her head buried in her pillow she stares at the moon
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he speaks to her all the words she's heard too many times before
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and pretty soon she just lets his voice fade away she thinks
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this was a gradual steel frost that started with cold feet and ended with numb hearts
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it was once satisfying sex, but now no longer is
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it was once filled with all the possibilities of new china or old stone
but now it's exaggerated and water-logged
no longer what these hands had intended and still I cry in my sleep
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he always said I was too sensitive
VERSE II:
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but I say, at least I never meant to make him cry at least I never meant to make him
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hurt that way no, I never meant to make him cry I never meant to make
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hurt that way
CHORUS:
STRUM:
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yes it's true I'm too sensitive but
STRUM:
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he takes pleasure in my pain
STRUM:
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yes it's true I'm too sensitive but
STRUM:
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he takes pleasure in my pain
VERSE III:
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the unheard hours they fly by, she goes to the window
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puts on a nightgown and brushes her hair
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he's already asleep by the time she goes to lay back down
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she thinks, my god, what I am doing here
VERSE:
her bones have grown tired of his hunger, of his grey eyes
and I feel that if I were to stay one more night here I'd die,
or explode, or worse yet, just fade away
he always said I was too sensitive
if I dared to care so much, the world could kill me that way
I wonder if he's only half alive or if he simply
has always been this inarticulate
VERSE II:
but I say, at least I never meant to make him cry
at least I never meant to make him hurt that way
no, I never meant to make him cry
I never meant to make him hurt that way
CHORUS:
yes it's true, I'm too sensitive but
he takes pleasure in my pain
yes it's true, I'm too sensitive but
he takes pleasure in my pain
VERSE III:
she gets out of bed and looks at her feet as though they were
the wings for her freedom
she gets up and goes to the drawer
it's a moment in which anything can happen
instead she gets out some clothing, puts them in a bag
and leaves him sleeping while she heads for the door