Love minus zero
C - GF
1. My love she speaks like silence,
C - GF
without
ideals or violence,
C
she
doesn't have to say she's faithful,
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F G
- G7
yet
she's true, like ice, like fire.
C - GF
People carry roses,
C -
GF
make
promises by the hours,
C
my
love she laughs like the flowers,
F
G C
Valentines can't buy her.
C - GF
2. In the dime stores and bus stations,
C - GF
people
talk of situations,
C
read
books, repeat quotations,
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F G
- G7
draw
conclusions on the wall.
C - GF
Some speak of the future,
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my
love, she speaks softly,
C
she
knows there's no success like failure,
F G C
and
that failure's no success at all.
C - GF
3. The cloak and dagger dangles,
C - GF
madams
light the candles.
C
in
ceremonies of the horsemen,
Dm
F G
- G7
even
the pawn must hold a grudge.
C
- GF
Statues made of match sticks,
C - GF
crumble
into one another,
C
my
love winks, she does not bother,
F G C
she
knows too much to argue or to judge.
+ instrumental = verse 3, lines 5
to 8)
C - GF
4. The bridge at midnight trembles,
C
- GF
the
country doctor rambles,
C
bankers'
nieces seek perfection,
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F
G - G7
expecting
all the gifts that wise men bring.
C - GF
The wind howls like a hammer,
C - GF
the
night blows cold and rainy,
C
my love, she's like
some raven
F
G C
at my
window with a broken wing.
+ C - F - C - F ....
(orig. = capo 4th) (Bob Dylan)