[Intro]
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G A Bm D G D A
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[Verse 1]
     D            G             D            A
From far away I'm coveting your white violet skin
   G            D            A
And missing the fall of your hair
D               G             D        A
Worlds away I'm courting your everything
G              D          A
And giving you all that I dare
G         A            Bm          D
I long to stay but the road has my number
        G             D            A
Still I don't have to miss you for long
G            A               Bm              D
Little did I know, all these new thoughts of home
     G          D              A
Come Tuesday or Wednesday I'm gone
D              G             D           A
Never had such Valentines as these on my mind
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All the faces I've seen, the places I've been
D                G        Bm          C
They don't stack up, even at the same time
G               A            D
To you and your white violet skin

[Verse 2]
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How can one claim perfect love, perfect trust
    G            D         A
And not know the wonders I know?
D              G                  Bm                A
Dreams are all well and good, but mine live and breathe
    G              D        A
Who knew? You came true, I suppose.
   G          A          Bm           D
If wishing on stars ever falls out of fashion
        G           D             A
We can move to the Pleiades with no backward glance
      G                  A
Maybe between worlds and blackness
  Bm            D
I'll get up the nerve
   G       D          A
To finally ask you to dance

[Verse 3]
            D             G         D       A
There'll be space for you always in my harmony
       G       D         A
Though I never knew this before
D              G              Bm        A
Every note, "I love you," no matter the chord
       G       A            D
That's all any love song is for
       G       A            D
That's all any love song is for

[Verse 4]
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The wild foxes danced when you laughed in your cradle
G                D           A
The magpies fell silent when you learned to sing
G          D           C
Imagine my luck, to be part of your fable
      G           D              A             A
Where you hold my heart like the fruit in your hand
Bm              D           C
The mockingbird sang when I lay in my cradle
G              D              A
The pipers all played when I rose up to stand
      G            D             C
I'll walk all the roads 'til I'm no longer able
    G             D              A          A  D
And treasure your heart like the song in my hand

[Solo]
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[Verse 5]
G             A           Bm          D
Just to say I love you in well-hidden ways
       G       D               A
That's all any song says, each note when it's played
G              A                  Bm         D
This one's too honest, but you're smiling, I pray.
G               D              A
I am wide open, only a little afraid

[Verse 6]
     D            G             D            A
From far away I'm coveting your white violet skin
G               D            A
And missing the fall of your hair
     D                G              Bm          A
With just a laugh you rearranged the world as it is
           G         D                A
Spoke your heart and gave me leave to care
       G            A            Bm            D
I will ever long to stay but the road has my number
        G             D            A
Still I don't have to miss you for long
G            A               Bm              D
Little did I know, all these new thoughts of home
    G         D        A
To tether me when I am gone
D              G             Bm           A
Never had such Valentines as these on my mind
        G          D         A
All the faces I've seen, the places I've been
          D           G        D           C
They will never stack up, even at the same time
   G            D
To you and your white violet skin
   G            A            D
To you and your white violet skin