Intro: C G x2
C G
Everything's so easy for Pauline
C G
Everything's so easy for Pauline
Em G
Ancient strings set feet a light to speed to her such mild grace
Em
No monument of tacky gold
C B7
They smoothed her hair with cinnamon waves
C G
And they placed an ingot in her breast
B7 C
to burn cool and collected
Em G
Fate holds her firm in its cradle
C C
and then rolls her for a tender pause to savor
B7 Em B7 Em
Everything's so easy for Pauline
C G
Girl with the parking lot eyes
C G
Margaret is the fragments of a name
Em G
Her bravery is mistaken for the thrashing in the lake
Em B7
Of the make-believe monster whose picture was faked
C G
Margaret is the fragments of a name
C G
Her love pours like a fountain Her love steams like rage
Em G
Her jaw aches from wanting and she's sick from chlorine
B7
But she'll never be as clean
C G
As the cool side of satin, Pauline
Em G
Pauliiiiiine
B7 Em x3
C G
Two girls ride the blue line
C Em
Two girls walk down the same street
Em G
One left her sweater sittin' on the train
C G
The other lost three fingers at the cannery
C G B7 Em
Everything's so easy for Pauliiiiiine
B7 Em
For Pauliiiiine
C G
For Pauliiiiine
B7 Em