Iron & Wine - History Of Lovers

      [Verse 1]
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Louise only got from me innocent poetry
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Although she played to not listen
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But still I can hear myself speak as if no one else
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Ever could offer the same

[Verse 2]
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Some say she knowingly tastes like a recipe
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Although so foolish and willing
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I said Babe I can picture you bend as if wanting to
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Bow as the curtain went down

[Chorus] 
F            C
Coddle some men, they'll remember you bitterly
F                 G
Fuck 'em, they'll come back for more
F           C
I asked my Louise would she leave and so cripple me
F             G
Then came a knock at the door

[Verse 3]
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“I came for my woman,” he came with a razor blade
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Bound like us all for the ocean
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I hope that she's happy I'm blamed for the death of
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The man who would take her from me

[Verse 4]
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Some they saw in me innocent poetry
C           G
Some, say they'll never be certain
C       F
But still it's been written, a history of lovers
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Given and taken in ink

[Chorus]
F            C
Coddle some men, they'll remember you fittingly
F                 G
Cut ‘em, they'll come back for more
F           C
I asked my Louise would she leave and so cripple me
F             G
Then came the knock at the door

[Verse 5]
C          F
Louise came to rescue me; listen, the irony:
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Blood made her heart change its beating
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I hope that she's happy I'm blamed for the death of
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The man she found better than me