Standard (EADGBE)

Intro

Church chimes ringing just next store

I was looking for something more

Bells tolling for a broken heart

I must love just to fall apart

That afternoon everything was all right

World was burning up disease and fright

Sitting around lazy a spoon

 And I was waiting for you and the next full moon

Chorus

 The best kiss I never want to miss

 Came from your lying lips spite of this

Verse

But you know I was long past that

Keeping cool in my panama hat

Lost weekends in the distant sublime

Take my vacation, sunset lavender time

Just one trick and I do it out of rabbits

I smell the perfume on her tender slim wrist

And I keep telling myself it don’t get better than this

Chorus

 The best kiss I never want to miss

 Came from your lying lips spite of this

Bridge

Everybody knows where the conscience goes

Everybody shows, that where the evil grows

Verse

Kids upstairs asleep as a mouse

My own worries are too big for this house

Newspapers try to tell me what matters

I’m telling you they’re all as crazy as Manhatters

I remember the shine of her bottom lip

And the kind of smile that could launch a thousand ships

Sit around nursing my wet memory

Or I could walk upstairs where she’d be waiting for me

Chorus

 The best kiss I never want to miss

 Came from your lying lips spite of this