Regina Spektor – Sellers Of Flowers (Guitar)

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[Verse 1]
     Bm
The sellers of flowers

 G
Buy up old roses

     F
They pull off dead petals

     Am
Like old heads of lettuce

     Em
And sell ’em as new ones

     G
For cheaper and fairer

         D
But they die by the morning

    F
So who is the winner?
[Chorus]
Bb
Not the roses

Dm
Not the buyers

A
Not the sellers
Maybe winter [Verse 2]
      Bm
Cause winter is coming

 G
Soon after summer

    F
It runs faster, faster

 Am
Chasing off Autumn

    Em                    G
We go from a warm sun to only a white sun

    D                     F
We go from a large sun to only a small one
[Verse 3]
   Bm                      G
When I was a small girl I walked through the market

   F                    Am
Holding my dad’s hand, mitten in gloved hand

   Em                         G
At night there were roses lit up in glass boxes

   D                                 F
The heat-lamps would keep them from freezing in winter
[Verse 4]
 Bb                          Dm
We never bought them but somebody must have

 A                     A7
Maybe they made it or maybe they froze up

 Bb
Before any person had put them in water

 A
And hoped that they’d still be alive by the morning
[Chorus]
Bb
Who’s the winner?

Dm
Not the roses

A
Not the buyers
Not the sellers
Bb
Not the tellers
Of these stories
A
Not the fathers
Not their children
Bb
Not those walking

Bb(b5)
On a dark night

A
Through a memory
They’re forgetting
Eb
Who’s the winner? Who’s the winner?

A
Maybe winter, maybe winter
[Verse 5]
 Bm                  D               F#m
Somebody steps on a light through a tunnel

 Bm                               D           F#m
They’re holding a piece of their mind in the rubble

Faug F#m A D     A   D
Hold on I won’t let go

Bm  A      G
I want to know
(Instrumental) [Verse 6]
    Bm
But no one lives long enough

 G
To see the outcome

    F
To know any answers

    Am
To know what the point is

    Em
To know if the winter

 G
Ever came closer

 D
Than on that night

         F
When I walked with my father
[Verse 7]
   Bb
A small piece of ice

   Dm
Lodged in my mind

   A
Lodged in my thoughts, lodged in my eyes

  Gm
Cold all around, cold all around

  A
Warm from inside, warm from inside
[Chorus]
Bb
Who’s the winner?

Dm
Not the roses

A
Not the buyers
Not the sellers
Bb
Not the tellers
Of these stories
A
Not the fathers
Not their children
Bb
Who’s the winner?

Dm
Not the roses

A
Not the buyers
Not the sellers
Bb
Not the tellers
Of these stories
A
Not the fathers
Not their children [Outro]
Bb
Not those walking

Bb(b5)
On a dark night

A
Through a memory
They’re forgetting
Eb
Who’s the winner? Who’s the winner?

A
Maybe winter, maybe winter

Eb
Who’s the winner? Who’s the winner?

A
Maybe winter, maybe winter

Eb                                  A    Gm  Edim   Dm
Who’s the winner? Who’s the winner?