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.