Devshi - My dear Petunia

C Em F G

Piles of receipts and tickets to Spain. If I’d have been smarter I’d have thrown them away.

C Em F G

Packets of cigarettes to numb the pain, of drinking from mugs that your lips used to stain.

Em F Em F G

I kept every one since the day you went cold. When you needed a warm cup of coffee to hold.

C Em F G

Now I don’t want to hear the old lie “it gets better”, when the only way it could be is if I could forget her.

C Em F G C

You can’t ask a dove to unlearn how to fly. You can’t ask my memory of her to die.

C Em F G

Spring roses planted, dead early June. But they weren’t the petals that fell much too soon

C Em F G

My dear Petunia, one of life’s greatest shames, I’ll never look at flowers the same way again

Em F Em F G

My father said we were two fools who had sinned, but our love felt as natural as the sun and the wind.

C Em F G

Now I don’t want to hear the old lie “it gets better”, when the only way it could be is if I could forget her.

C Em F G

You can’t ask a man to grow into a child, You can’t ask my memory of her to die

C Em F G C

And I selfishly wish that I had been the one, for when your life ended my pain had begun.

C Em F G

My dear Petunia, the song that I write, is the only thing keeping me from crying at night

C Em F G C

In hopes those who listen remember your name, one soul in love with one soul in the grave.

Devshi - Leading lady

G G/F# G/F C

My heart’s like a honeybee, it buzzes each time you get close to me, sticky golden feelings.

Cm G A D7

Now she’s a movie star and I’m behind the camera, capturing the moments you fall in love.

G G/F# G/F C

She’s like banana bread, a slice so warm it warms your bed, before you sleep.

Cm G A D7

I tried to find a flaw but turns out she’s good to the core. Unlike a certain broken girl like me.

G G/F# G/F

I wish you’d chosen me and I could be your leading lady. ‘cos I don’t want to be a supporting role.

C Cm

There for one scene and then killed off the show.

A D7

I found a script to be with you. Scene one. Act two.

G G/F# G/F C

Your laugh lives inside my head and makes me forget what joke I said. A melody so free.

Cm G A D7

I’ve lost my urge to try to coax that song the costs too high, knowing that that laugh is hers and it’s not mine.

G G/F# G/F C

Your smile’s like a Hershey’s kiss, it wraps my heart in a silver bliss like a starry sky

Cm G A D7

Though that’s the chocolate kind, a real one’s what I had in mind. When she first kissed you that’s when I realised.

G G/F# G/F

I wish you’d chosen me and I could be your leading lady. ‘cos I don’t want to be a supporting role.

C Cm

There for one scene and then killed off the show.

A D7

I found a script to be with you. But you don’t even seem to have a clue.

G G/F#

Secret glances not reciprocated, pining for a love that was never fated.

C Cm

All this time, you never see me there.

G G/F#

Give me one chance to be at the ending, then my acting would have never been pretending.

A D7

I’d be standing next to you instead of teaching you your cues.

G G/F# G/F

And you would have chosen me, and I would be your leading lady. I wouldn’t be a supporting role, and

C Cm

I’d be alive til the end credits roll.

A D7 G

Sell out shows about a love story. Lead parts written just for you and me.

Devshi - One more round

VERSE: Fm with descending notes (F, Eb, Db, C)

It started hushed, a secret they shared. He let on more than how much he really cared.

His expertise made her less nauseous. I wish she had known that meant she had to be more cautious.

CHORUS: Fm with descending chromatic notes (F, E, Eb, D, Db, B, then back to C)

She never played this type of game before. Round one she wants more. He happily obliges.

Rookie mistake as all of us know. Players get good at their game with practise.

VERSE: Fm with descending notes (F, Eb, Db, C)

Thrice a day, once a week, he slowly fades out. Saying he’s busy she believes him with no doubt.

Six at night again, this time he reiterates; you do realise that we’re never gonna date?

CHORUS: Fm with descending chromatic notes (F, E, Eb, D, Db, B, then back to C)

Playing it cool she starts to laugh to hide, the hurt born inside, from his obvious relief.

Trying to see where it all went wrong, or trying see what was wrong with her.

ROCK - Fm with descending chromatic notes (F, E, Eb, D, Db, B, then back to C)

I’ve shown you parts of me I’ve never shown, to even my loved ones who you never bothered to know.

Jumped at the chance to collect my body, how could I refuse when you asked so sweetly?

Now my darling you know what to do. It’s time to leave this hound.

She takes a glance at the wide open door.

“I think I’ll stay for one more round…”