10,000 Maniacs - Tension

      Tension Makes A Tangle - Hope Chest

Intro: Am D

6(G Bm Am C)
2(Am D G Em) Am D

6(G Bm Am C)
2(Am D G Em) Am D
2(G Am C D)

6(G Bm Am C)
2(Am D G Em) Am D
4(G Am C D) G

As Frail hinges pivot on a case's door
commemorative
souvenirs from places
containers change with each occasion.

Cellophane encased displaying paper
certificate
to credit years of service
a tool of central enterprises.

The early hope
for permanence the words the rings consistency
the so-cial security
of miracles high tragedy.

A thought mistaken for a memory.
Clear the dust from the smiles in boxes.
Pass the patterned wall recall their voices.


The local posts will list your friends in order
of disappearance
lawn scattered tins feed birds the portion baked for
absent guests.

In the mass edition icon god sent comfort
your salvation
but who grants absolution
for sins that never were committed.

Tension makes a tangle of each thought becomes
an inconvenience
sound doesnt ever penetrate the
servile edges break and faint.

A thought mistaken for a memory. 
(Dress lengths)? assassinations.
A fractured family tie another christening, a christening.
A fractured family tie and another christening, christening, christening.

LEAD(6)

A thought mistaken for a memory.
(Dress lengths)? assassinations.
A fractured family tie another christening, a christening.
A fractured family tie and another christening, christening, christening, christening.