G               Bm
When you were younger, you had nightmares
        C                G       G/F#
You had scissor-pain and phantom limbs
    Em                Am
And things that kept you nervous
             C                 D
Through that twelve-year interim
         G                  Bm
When you fell crossing that street
         C               G      G/F#
South of Houston, old Manhattan land
      Em                  Am
Those nightmares fell from building-tops
    C               D
And took you by the hand
             G                  Bm
And you were brought into those rooms
             C                 G          G/F#
With sliding curtains, shining children's heads
    Em                Am
And one of them, that boy
           C            D
Was not as lucky as you then
       G                 Bm
But he returns to you at night
              C                    G      G/F#
Just when you think you might have fallen asleep
    Em         Am
His face is up against yours
               C            D
And you're too terrified to speak
Am       D
Oh, Sylvia
Am       D
Oh, Sylvia
Em                         Am
You may think that I'm not listening
      C              D
But I am, goddamn, I am
        G              Bm
I won't pretend I understand
          C                 G     G/F#
Because I can't, and know I never will
    Em                  Am
But something makes you sting
              C                 D
And something makes you want to kill
            G                Bm
It made you crawl under that house
               C              G      G/F#
And stick your head under the stove
     Em
It's all connected
 Am                  C                   D
In those complicated nightmares that you wove
Am       D
Oh, Sylvia
Am       D
Oh, Sylvia
        Em                 Am
You may think that I'm not listening
   C              D
But I am, goddamn, I am