Marillion – Warm Wet Circles (Guitar)

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F#
On promenades where drunks propose

   E
to lonely arcade mannequins

F#                            E
Where ceremonies pause at the jeweler's shop display

F#                         E
Feigning casual silence in strained romantic interludes

          F#                       E
'Til they commit themselves to the muted journey home

        B                      Db
And the pool player rests on another cue

F#                        B
Last night's hero picking up his dues

  B                         Db
A honeymoon gambled on a ricochet

      Abm                             F#
She's staring at the brochures at the holidays

B                          F#
Chalking up a name in your hometown

F#                           B
Standing all your mates to another round

B                               Db
Laughing at the world 'til the barman wipes away the 

F#                   Abm            E  F# - E - F# - E
warm wet circles The warm wet circles

      F#
I saw teenage girls like gaudy moths

E
A classroom shabby butterflies

F#                                      E
Flirt in the glow of stranded telephone boxes

F#
Planning white lace weddings from smeared hearts

E                       F#
and token proclamations Rolled from stolen lipsticks

            E
across the razored webs of glass

        B                   Db
Sharing cigarettes with experience

         F#                   B
with her giggling jealous confidantes

                      Db
She faithfully traces his name

     Abm                F#
with quick bitten fingernails

            B               Db
Through the tears of condensation

        F#              B
that'll cry through the night

B                                 Db
As the glancing headlights of the last bus

         Abm             F#
kiss adolescence goodbye

B      G        A
  In a warm wet circle

       B                     G            A
Like a mother's kiss on your first broken heart

  B    Bm  G   A
a warm wet circle

       B      Bm
Like a bullet hole in Central Park

  G        A
a warm wet circle

         B                G      A
And I'll always surrender to the warm wet circles
E - G - A - E E - G - E - A (3x)
D - Dm                         C
      She nervously undresses in the dancing beams of the 
Fidra lighthouse
Dm                        C
Giving it all away before it's too late

             Dm                      C
She'll let a lovers tongue move in a warm wet circle

Dm                              C
Giving it all away and showing no shame

              Dm
She'll take a mother's kiss on her first broken heart

C
a warm wet circle

       Dm
She'll realise that she plays her part

     C
in a warm wet circle
B - Bm - A (2x) [transition to next song]
Em - C - D - C (5x)
It was a wedding ring destined to be found in a cheap hotel
lost in a kitchen sink or thrown in a wishing well