C F G
I've had you with me since I first laid coins
C
On the track
F G
If you leave I'm not sure how it will be
C
If you do come back
F G
I felt you dance in the summer wind
Am
When you were long and thin
F G
So if I ask for a handful of space
C
Would you still come home again?
C F G
It's the little things you miss when it all changes
C F C
Even if you're the one doing the moving on
F G
When the world shifts and you get rearranged
G Am
When your grief lies melting in the sun
Am F G C
When your grief is just you melting in the sun
When I first met you I had
Sunlight in my hair
Hot asphalt kissed my feet
And you were always there
Looking at you now I know
Those days won't come again
I know we both aren't the boys
That we were back then
It's the little things you miss when it all changes
When your old leather boots start to rub you sore
When the world shifts and you get rearranged
When it's the last time you close a door
When it's the very last time you close a door
When the dusk was deep you made me feel Like I'd be okay That the moon would rise and I'd Smile up at her someday But we are trees growing hard Against a chain link fence I just had hoped to take you with me When I danced in my blue dress It's the little things you miss when it all changes When you trade yourself in like an old used car The world around you shifts and you get rearranged When you sail your ship so far out past the bar When the world makes you into what you are
G God bless the preacher, god bless the bends C God bless the one who has to die in the end G God bless you and all the things you might be C D G God bless the wind and the deep roaring sea G I sent me with the willows across the roaring deep C Sent me to where breakers will rock me to my sleep G I'll find you someday, though I don't know your face C D G You live amongst the lizards in that dry, holy place God bless the children they know what they did God bless you simon and your brand new little kid God bless the stones and the roots of the trees God bless the winds and the deep roaring sea There is a rest that is solemn and long It someday will be broken by the trumpets loud song But God willing I won't hear it, but slumbering remain To keep unbroken silence in that soft summer rain God bless the ones who have never read the book God bless the ones who count themselves forsook And God bless the nothing that follows our unease God bless the wind and the deep roaring sea God bless You, god bless Me God bless the living who have yet to come to be God bless the millions who dreamless lie in peace God bless the wind and the deep roaring seas
G C
I got sad for like a goddamn week
D G
And Helle lost her grip on the golden fleece
C G
The water met her and she saw him fly
D G G7
Because Phrixus didn't stop to say goodbye
C G
Oh I don't want to fall all alone
D G
Though Icarus smiled as he dropped like a stone
C G
Our fathers tell and we will not hear
D G
The wax burns our skin, the wind in our ears
I wake from the dream where I am a boy
My skin is rough my eyes filled with joy
Now I'm softer and I'm filled with sand
Moses never set foot in the promised land
Because I don't want to fall asleep all alone
With my fingers curled round an unhewn stone
And Icarus was singing so clear
Until silence was all his father could hear
And they finally got me on anti-psychotics
And Helle is drowning in 20 feet of water
But I'm on land and I'm feeling fine
Staining my teeth on dark bitter wine
Cause I don't want to fall down a hole
With my fingers slipping on a falling stone
Icarus he was somebody's dear
But Helios carries a bitter spear
G C G Jangly Girlfriend made of spare parts G C G D Jangly Girlfriend, with a big heart G C G Carries it with her as a gift for you G C Em D G And says, "I love you, yes I do" Jangly Girlfriend needs to recharge Jangly Girlfriend is trying real hard To drink enough water and get enough sleep And says, "I love you, wide and deep" Jangly Girlfriend fusses and frets Jangly Girlfriend makes a big mess Making big dinners to let you know That she loves you, no matter where you go Jangly Girlfriend her joints come loose Jangly Girlfriend like a pair of old shoes Needs to be held and needs to be told That all her worn leather shines like gold!
C F
If they kill me, they kill me
C Am
And if I die, I die
C G
But God has dug for me a grave
F Am
Beyond the western sky
C F
It's a hole that he made in the earth
C G
Six feet long and six feet deep
C F
And there wrapped up in my own true name
C G Am
I'll lay me down and sleep, and sleep
I was born with a shaking
Deep in my marrowbones
And late in the night I hear them rattle
As I lie alone
And who knows if the path that we're walking
Is set on level ground?
When the debtors come to call I'll lay
My lonesome body down
No point in fighting a feeling
The oceans too will dry
I saw you by the cabin walls
Covering both your eyes
If a boat will make the trip
All along the rocky shore
I'll go where you could not
To never return no more
Felicidad, Felicidad
Pienso en ti mi Felicidad
Mi corazon, donde estas?
La noche no me trae paz
Felicidad, Felicidad
Pienso en ti mi Felicidad
Y cuando yo lloro, es por ti
Porque tu no piensas en mi
Felicidad, Felicidad
Pienso en ti mi Felicidad
Repeat
INTRO - Car turning over, starting, engine revving
Are you ready? Okay, masks on, move quick, let’s go.
G Em
Upstream the reservoir is getting full
C Am
Cracks in the concrete, black from pole to pole
G Em
You will hear the rumbling and stand up high
C G
Looking to the west where the mountains meet the sky
G Em
On the fields and the shop floors will fall a hush
C Am
The dry, placid earth will tremble to the touch
G Em
Every buried anger that was entombed in it’s blood
C
Will come rising with a fury
D G
When the dry creeks flood
C G
Oh in the clear sky thunder will be roaring
Em C D
When the hard rains of winter come storming
Em Am
The hunter’s bird will watch from where it is soaring
C D
On every open throat that cries
G
When the dry creeks rise.
The levy will be left broken open in the sun
And we will turn to the work that still must be done
Stirring from the water when the new day dawns
To hear David read from his book of Psalms
Then every moving soul will form on the hill For if mine is the hand then yours is the will Leather boots will tramp the earth into mud The sweat of our backs will fall When the dry creek floods Oh in the clear sky thunder will be roaring When the hard rains of winter come storming The hunter’s bird will watch from where it is soaring On every open throat that cries When the dry creeks rise. When the trumpets quiet there will come a bell From the righteous mass will rise up the twelve Love of silver will be lain where the thorn tree stood It’s roots will be torn up When the dry creek floods And stars will fill the skies After the dry creeks rise Spoken: Listen, now, interloper. For when the fields rise and turn against you in their anger, there will be nowhere that you might hide – and the very earth will spit you from its mouth and into the dust
(Drone underneath of any major chord) C I saw Lily Brown Lose her hand in the oil refinery Oh so clear like autumn dewdrops G C Scattered on the air I saw Lily Brown When the chain snapped quick as lightning As she fell quick as anything Onto the grating there I saw Lily Brown Gasp her last inside my ar-hrems She was warm and then was cold The grease slick in her hair Who knew Lily Brown? She was lonesome just like everyone And her eyes shone gold at midnight In the sodium glare I knew Lily Brown She was kind when I was lowly Took my shift from 4 to Noontime And she combed my hair Who was Lily Brown? Before she was one more body A crisp malfunction, soon replaced And soon repaired? I bore Lily Brown After she was cold and rigid And the earth was soft and yielding In the summer air I loved Lily Brown Who lost her life to the oil refinery She was clear like autumn dewdrops Scattered in the air
C F C G I’m not your potion I’m all emotion C F C G Can’t harsh this mellow All orange and yellow C F C G Blossoms and embers Try to remember C F I’m vibin’ and you C G Won’t tell me what to C F Uh uh no baby baby C F Cause my world’s on fire C G And it’s down to the wire C F G Ah aoaoaoaoao I’m vibin on you If you want me to Cause oh cause oh oh baby I’m electric steam Like I had always dreamed Ah!!!! So see me moving Tasty and human Soft little creature Small fuzzy features I make my moment My time is flowing I’m vibin it’s true What else could I do? Ahhhhhhhhhhhh Little bug in the air Sweet and debonair And that’s just it babe
Scout, Fort
D A
A brave scout stood before a fort
D G D
When night bloomed soft around her
D A
She was seeking for her love
D G D
And knew that she had found her
Her feet were sore and too her heart
Was aching for her Lady
Whose cold, cold body lay behind
In her hall in the green wood side-y
A D
For she had loved a Lady Gay
A D
Who rode on a spotted pony
A D
And it was in the month of June
G A Bm
That they were to be married
But on the wedding night it was
The night and very early
Her Lady had died in her arms
With her body burning
The scout had watched her hindmost breath
Rise just like the steam
But she was faster than the spirit there
That left just like a dream
The scout was a noble girl
She ran just like the wind
She could catch the running stag
And kiss it on the chin
She ran a day, a night and day
Faster even than death
On the heels of the mortal soul
That flew on her lover’s last breath
Now she stood before the fort
Whose walls rose black like tar
And she saw her lady fair
Calling from the wall
“I saw the old moon late yestreen
With the new moon in her arms
Oh my love, if you climb to me
You never shall return”
“Oh my dear, my darling dear
I know the fate I carry,
But as sure as I know my love’s kiss
These dark walls will not stay me.”
And so she climbed upon the stones
The stones as cold as hatred
Mounting then the highest wall
Where her dead love was waiting
The moon eclipsed the shining stars
The heather made sweet the air
As the Lady ran her hand
Through her brave Scout’s black hair
She kissed her scout once on her hand
And twice she kissed her cheek
Three times she kissed her dark lips
Then the Scout fell at her feet
Was the scout then borne upon the wind
Or laid within the hollow?
Did she pass with joyful tears
Or with those of sorrow?
The scout was not borne on the wind
Nor laid within the hollow
But with a small smile on her lips
She went where none can follow
Oh but there is a whispering wind
When the heather blooms
Two voices can be heard to sing
Between the sphagnum and the moon
Two faint voices, riding close
Upon the yellow broom
Quick as gone as they had come
Between the sphagnum and the moon
Two faint voices, riding close
Upon the yellow broom
Quick as gone as they had come
Between the sphagnum and the moon.
Am F C Crisp and clean against the dark and muddy blue sky Am F E7 The air is stagnant and the breeze is burnt tonight F C Oh I know, and lord, I can see E7 F Am What this charismatic rectangle is doing to me Her call came like a thunder so radiant and pure Frigid lines through the surging brine I knew then that I was impure Sanctus Obeliscus, I stand agape With all of my companions, asleep until we wake A word suspended in between the meaning and saying Searing blade that cuts the stagnant, putrid braying Oft derided monolith, how they’ll cry out in the dark When they see you fly over the flowers of central park Bright eyed boys, you are only the grist She is the millstone, the balled up fist You will come to understand the world is made of glass She is just the stone that had to, lord, had to be cast Crisp and clean, shaking apart the brittle sky Fall out of your broken mouth, now close your eyes For I know, and I can see The future that is coming, and I am free I know, and I can taste The metal ozone in the air where my future waits
C G C The dry earth is thirsty and gold Am F G This land is made to yearn C G F Am I turn up my face to you Am G C I pray for your safe return Chorus: F G C The night is so still without you Am F G Save the wind and a far off train F C What can I do, I think only of you G C When sunflowers bloom in the rain The dust kicks up from your shoes Raindrops fall thick and heavy The flowers sing out in bloom As the dark sky opens and empties Chorus Sunflowers bloom in the storm To show their love for the sun They hold her light in their hands Kept safe till the new day dawns Chorus x2 last line The clouds heavy with rain dance dark over the sky That broad sky, bleached and wind-smoothed Swath of blue Blooming fields turn their faces To the vanishing sun I smell the fragrant grass As it dances beneath the warm drops The earth sings, and the flowers hold The promise of the returning light Close to their beating hearts.
G C I got sad for like a goddamn week D G And Helle lost her grip on the golden fleece C G The water met her and she saw him fly D G G7 Because Phrixus didn't stop to say goodbye C G Oh I don't want to fall all alone D G Though Icarus smiled as he dropped like a stone C G Our fathers tell and we will not hear D G The wax burns our skin, the wind in our ears I wake from the dream where I am a boy My skin is rough my eyes filled with joy Now I'm softer and I'm filled with sand Moses never set foot in the promised land Because I don't want to fall asleep all alone With my fingers curled round an unhewn stone And Icarus was singing so clear Until silence was all his father could hear And they finally got me on anti-psychotics And Helle is drowning in 20 feet of water But I'm on land and I'm feeling fine Staining my teeth on dark bitter wine Cause I don't want to fall down a hole With my fingers slipping on a falling stone Icarus he was somebody's dear But Helios carries a bitter spear
Ai---------------- AI----------------- Lost in the mangroves waiting for that tree to grow All hot and sweaty last week was ice and snow - My Mind and heart are singing cause I’m homeward bound But babe my craft has foundered I am gone to ground Ai-------------- AI-------------- Breakdown! I’m going round the world get back to you Never felt like this my body’s all confused You done stole all my sense, but I know a thing or two One is making love the other’s making do so Ai------------------ AI------------- Gonna cut me a plank to fill this splintered hole Oh my mast is shivering, bless my soul You got me all bewildered, God above But when I get back to you you gonna get all my love Ai--------- AI---------------- Breakdown! I could not find my hands in the morning light Cause I was carving timber through the night My ragged flag is flying I’m grinning to the bone So open up your arms, babe I’m coming home Ai--------- AI-------------- Breakdown!