Em 022000
D xx0232
Am x02210
F 133211
A x02220
E 022100
F#m 244222
Amaj7 x02120
Bm 224432
C#m 446654
F# 244322
G#m 466444
B 224442
Quite a few! but less bar chords than you'd have to use in another tab, so it should be
a little nicer to your hands.
[Verse 1]
CEmDAm
The meadowlark and the chim-choo-ree and the sparrow
CEmDAm
Set to the sky in a flying spree, for the sport of the Pharaoh
CEmDAm
Little while later the Pharisees dragged a comb through the meadow
CEmDAm
Do you remember what they called up to you and me, in our window?
CEmDAm
There is a rusty light on the pines tonight, sun pouring wine, lord, or marrow
CEmDAm
Into the bones of the birches and the spires of the churches juttin' out from the shadow
CEmDAm
and the yoke and the axe, and the old smokestacks, and the bale and the barrow
CEmDAm
and everything sloped like it was dragged from the rope in the mouth of the south below
[Verse 2]
FAEF#m
We've seen those mountains kneeling, felten and grey
FAEF#m
We thought our very hearts would up and melt away
DAmaj7EF#m
From the snow in the nighttime, just going, and going
DAmaj7EF#m
and the stirrin' of windchimes, in the mornin', in the mornin'
BmEBmE
Helps me find my way back in
BmEBmE
From the place where I have been
[Verse 3]
C#mF#
and Emily, I saw you last night by the river!
C#mF#
I dreamed you were skippin' little stones across the surface of the water!
G#mBAC#m
Frowning at the angle where they were lost and slipped under forever
G#mBAC#m
In a mud-cloud, mica-spangled, like the sky'd been breathing on a mirror
C#mF#
Anyhow -- I sat by your side, by the water
C#mF#
You taught me the names of the stars overhead that I wrote down in my ledger
G#mBAC#m
Though all I knew of the rote universe were those Pleiades loosed in December
G#mBAC#m
I promised you I'd set them to verse so I'd always remember
[Chorus]
C#mF#
That the meteorite is a source of the light, and the meteor's just what we see
G#mBAC#m
and the meteoroid is a stone that's devoid of the fire that propelled it to thee
C#mF#
and the meteorite's just what causes the light and the meteor's how it's perceived
G#mBAC#m
and the meteoroid's a bone thrown from the void that lies quiet and offering to thee
[Tiny Interlude] (still relative to capo)
E|---------0------------------------------|
B|------------4s2~------------------------|
G|----------------------------------------|
D|--4h5h6---------------------------------|
A|----------------------------------------|
E|----------------------------------------|
[Verse 4]
Amaj7EmDAm
You came and lay a cold compress upon the mess I'm in
CEmDAm
Threw the windows wide and cried, "Amen! Amen! Amen!"
CEmDAm
The whole world stopped to hear you hollerin'
CEmDAm
Then you looked down and saw now what was happenin'
CEmDAm
The lines are fadin' in my kingdom
CEmDAm
Though I have never known a way to border 'em in
CEmDAm
So the muddy mouths of baboons and sows and the grouse and the horse and the hen
CEmDAm
Grope at the gate of the looming lake that was once a tidy pen
CEmDAm
and the mail is late and the great estates are not lit from within
CEmDAm
The talk in town's becomin' downright sickenin'!
[Verse 5]
FAEF#m
In due time we will see the far buttes lit by a flare
FAEF#m
I've seen your bravery and I will follow you there
DAmaj7EF#m
and row through the nighttime, so healthy, gone healthy all of a sudden
DAmaj7EF#m
In search of a midwife who can help me, who can help me
BmEBmE
Help me find my way back in
BmEBmE
and there are worries where I've been
[Verse 6]
C#mF#
and say, say, say, in the lee of the bay, don't be bothered!
C#mF#
Leave your troubles here where the tugboats shear the water from the water
G#mBAC#m
Flanked by furrows, curling back like a match held up to the newspaper
C#mF#
Emily, they'll follow your lead by the letter!
C#mF#
and I make this claim, and I'm not ashamed to say I knew you better!
G#mBAC#m
For what they've seen is just a beam of your sun that banishes winter
C#mF#
Let us go! Though we know it's a hopeless endeavor,
C#mF#
The ties that bind; they are barbed and spined and hold us close forever!
G#mBAC#m
Though there is nothing would help me come to grips with a sky that is gaping and yawning
G#mBAC#m
There is a song I woke with on my lips as you sailed your great ship towards the morning
[Verse 7]
CEmDAm
Come on home, the poppies are all grown knee-deep by now
CEmDAm
Blossoms all have fallen, and the pollen ruins the plow
CEmDAm
Peonies nod in the breeze, and while they wetly bow
CEmDAm
With hydrocephalitic listlessness, ants mop up their brows
CEmDAm
and everything with wings is restless, aimless, drunk and dour
CEmDAm
Butterflies and birds collide at hot, ungodly hours
CEmDAm
and my clay-coloured motherlessness rangily reclines
CEmDAm
Come on home, now! All my bones are dolorous with vines!
[Verse 8]
FAEF#m
Pa pointed out to me, for the hundredth time tonight
FAEF#m
The way the Ladle leads to a dirt-red bullet of light
DAEF#m
Squint skyward and listen, loving him, we move within his borders
DAEF#m
Just asterisms in the stars set order
DAEF#m
We could stand for a century, staring with our heads cocked
DAEF#m
In the broad daylight at this thing -- Joy! Landlocked!
DAEF#m
In bodies that don't keep, dumbstruck with the sweetness of being!
DAEF#m
'til we don't be told, take this, and eat this!
[Chorus]
CEmDAm
Told: The meteorite is a source of the light, and the meteor's just what we see!
CEmDAm
and the meteoroid is a stone that's devoid of the fire that propelled it to thee!
CEmDAm
and the meteorite's just what causes the light and the meteor's how it's perceived!
CEmDAmC
and the meteoroid's a bone thrown from the void that lies quiet and offering to thee!
[Outro]
(C) EmDAm
C Em D Am x5