Misc Musicals – Alice By Heart - Your Shell Of Grief (Guitar)

Em                C
Just cry and it's a crisis

Em                         C
You sigh and put the sigh back in silence

Em                               C
My tortoise taught don't pee in the sea

Em                     C
Give into your grief like me

Em                 C
Don't bother with denial

Em                          C
Bereavement is the key to survival

Em                               C
That tortoise was my husband you see

Em                              C
Live and breathe your grief like me

Bm                    Cmaj7
Mock me I'm living in shock here

Em                    G
My cheeks thick with tears

Bm                       Cmaj7
My heart is a dark polar block dear

B7sus4        B7
No one comes near

Em                     C
No loss could ever match mine

Em                               C
They weep the weep but I lost my Rabbi

Em                               C
My tortoise taught us Torah, you see

Em                         C
Meet yourself in grief like me

Bm                     Cmaj7
Mock me i'm living in shock here

Em                  G
Such pearls are my tears

Bm                          Cmaj7
My heart is mock Loch Ness Monster

B7sus4          B7
Just don't come near

Em                    C
My life has lost all porpoise

Em
I lost my hare

Em
I lost my hair

Em         C
I lost my tortoise!

Em                        C
So so I sing King Lear-y ally

Em                           C
Kvell within your shell like me

                  Em
Just build your walls (tell the shell)

        C
That's better (of grief, the wonder)

             Em
Retract your head (tell the shell)

               C
You won't get wetter (of grief)

         Em
Love is brief (swell the shell)

              C
And time's a thief (of grief duck under)

       Em                  Esus4
Climb into your shell of grief (swell your shell of grief)