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Going to Marrakesh
by the Extra Glenns
tabbed by Mark Popham

Intro: G

G          C                G
the fog is lifting from the water.
    G         C               D     Dsus D
the bells are sounding on the boats.
   G    C         G                 Em
and our love is a monster plain and simple.
G                              D                C
though you weight it down with stones to try to drown it,
D
it floats.
G
it floats.

G          C            G
the day of reckoning is coming
               C            D 
faster than anyone here realizes.
    G   C            G          Em 
and our love is like jesus, but worse.
           G                D                   C 
though you seal the cave up where you laid its body,
D
it rises
G   
it rises.

G D C D G
i     
G                    Em      D
keep waiting for our love to die.
      G             C            G                         Em
the machines by its bed dim and flicker, but it won't stay dead.
       G                 D                C          D
and it perks up when the nurses bring its medication by.
G D C D G
i       wish 

    G                 Em         D
our love could go the way of all flesh.
             G                  C               Em                  C
but it's not right, and its not nice to try to kill the same thing twice.
                    G              D             G
would you pack your things? we are going to marrakesh.