[Intro]
D Em Bm
D Em Bm
D Em Bm
A G
[Verse]
Bm G
You were the one behind the camera
A Bm
All those photographs I found
G
The stairs up to the attic
Em A Bm
They would bend and bow with every creaking sound
A
The books unbound
G
The dusty ground
Bm
The stories that they told me
G A Bm
They were fragments, they were parchment half unfurled
G
They were epitaphs in whispered tones
Em A Bm
Kept safe from all the swine and all the pearls
A
The black-haired girl
G
The twists and curls
[Bridge]
Em
I have never seen your grave
G A7 Bm
And I will never know the things that you believed
A
Norma Jeanne
G
Norma Jeanne
[Verse]
Bm A G Bm
Oh, was he gentle? Was he patient? Was he meek?
G
Did the animal inside him
Em A Bm
Have to teach you how to turn the other cheek?
A
Norma Jeanne
G
Are you any part of me?
Bm A
And oh, did it haunt you still
G Bm
When you would go to sleep?
G
Did you learn to love the darkness
Em A Bm
Of the one who laid these children at your feet?
A
Norma Jeanne
G
Norma Jeanne
[Bridge]
Em
Were you broken? Were you bitter?
G A7 Bm
Are you present in the secrets that I keep?
A
Norma Jeanne
G
Norma Jeanne
Em
You are the face of all my questions
G A7 Bm
And the body of the man that I will be
A
Norma Jeanne
G
Do you see yourself in me?
Do I see myself in you?
[Outro]
D Em Bm
D Em Bm
D Em Bm
A G