Intro: B F# E B
Verse 1
B F# E B
It's your bicycle bells and your Rembrandt swells
F# E B
Your children alive and still breathing
D#m A E B
And your look of lost when you're coming across
F# E B
Makes me feel like a thief when you're bleeding
Chorus
F# E B F# F#7
Duchess, Duchess, light up your candles for me
B F# E B F#
Duchess, Duchess, put all your love back in me
E B(add9)
I come listening, I touch, touching
Verse 2
B F# E B
With the Persian sea running through your veins
F# E B
You shed your names with the seasons
D#m A E B
Still they all return with their last remains
F# E B
And they lay them before you like reasons
F# E B
With your shimmering dress, it says 'no', it says 'yes'
F# E B
It says 'I've nothing left for concealing'
D#m A E B
It's your shiftless flesh and your old girl's grace
F# E B
It's your young girl's face that I'm breathing
Chorus
F# E B F# F#7
Duchess, Duchess, light up your candles for me
B F# E B F#
Duchess, Duchess, Duchess, put all the love back in me
E(add9) B(add9)
I'm lying, she's crying