C
I was a quick wet boy
Am
Diving too deep for coins
F
All of your straight blind eyes
G
Wide on my plastic toys
C
And when the cops closed the fair
Am
I cut my long baby hair
F
Stole me a dog-eared map
G
And called for you everywhere
Chorus:
C
Have I found you?
AmFG
Flightless bird, jealous, weeping
C
Or lost you?
Am
American mouth
FG
Big bill looming
Verse 2:
C
Now I’m a fat house cat
Am
Cursing my sore blunt tongue
F
Watching the warm poison rats
G
Curl through the wide/white fence cracks
C
Kissing on magazine photos
AmF
Those fishing lures thrown in the cold and clean
G
Blood of Christ mountain stream
Chorus:
C
Have I found you?
AmFG
Flightless bird, brown hair bleeding
C
Or lost you?
Am
American mouth
FG
Big bill, still going down
CDGC
There are times that walk from you like some passing afternoon
GDEmD
Summer warmed the open window of her honeymoon
CDGC
And she chose a yard to burn, but the ground remembers her
GDEmD
Wooden spoons, her children stir her bougainvillea blooms
CDGC
There are things that drift away like our endless, numbered days
GDEmD
Autumn blew the quilt right off the perfect bed she made
CDGC
And she's chosen to believe in the hymns her mother sings
GDEmD
Sunday pulls its children from their piles of fallen leaves
CDGC
There are sailing ships that pass all our bodies in the grass
GDEmD
Springtime calls her children 'till she lets them go at last
CDGC
And she's chosen where to be, though she's lost her wedding ring
GDEmD
Somewhere near her misplaced jar of bougainvillea seeds
CDGC
There are things we can't recall, blind as night that finds us all
GDEmD
Winter tucks her children in, her fragile china dolls
CDGC
But my hands remember hers, rolling 'round the shaded ferns
GDEmD
Naked arms, her secrets still like songs I'd never learned
CDGC
There are names across the sea, only now I do believe
GDEmD
Sometimes with the windows closed, she'll sit and think of me
CDGC
But she'll mend his tattered clothes, and they'll kiss as if they know
GDEmDA baby sleeps in all our bones, so scared to be alone
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Intro: AmCGD }x2
Am
Lost my watch, watch and chain,
C
But time's not lost
G
This time we walk together
D
Beside the slow black river
Am
Water-walking over mud
C
You whisper something
G
Something good in my ear,
D
so I stop so I can hear:
Am
"Darling, I'm the one to blame
C
I threw your watch and chain
G
To where I don't know
D
Inside the tall grass meadow
Am
You'll forget, forget in time
C
Remember this:
G
Your hand in mine forever
D
Beside the slow black river"
Am
Lost my watch, watch and chain
C
To her today
G
But time it has no meaning
D
When her and me are walking
Am
Darling, I'm the one to blame
C
I love you still
G
And timeless now forever
D
Together by the river
Capo 6
Intro: CGF5CG }x2
CG
I am thinking it's a sign that the freckles
F5C
in our eyes are mirror images and when
G
we kiss they're perfectly aligned
CG
And I have to speculate that God himself
F5C
did make us into corresponding shapes like
G
puzzle pieces from the clay
CG
True it may seem like a stretch, but
F5
its thoughts like this that catch my troubled
CG
head when you're away when I am missing you to death
CG
When you are out there on the road for
F5
several weeks of shows, and when you scan
CG
the radio I hope this song will guide you home
Chorus:
CG
They will see us waving from such great
F5CG
heights, "come down now" they'll say
CG
but everything looks perfect from far away,
F5CG
"come down now", but we'll stay
CG
I tried my best to leave this song on your
F5C
machine but the persistent beat it sounded
G
thin upon listening
CG
That frankly will not fly. you will hear
F5
the shrillest highs and lowest lows with
CG
the windows down when this is guiding you home
Chorus:
CG
They will see us waving from such great
F5CG
heights, "come down now" they'll say
CG
but everything looks perfect from far away,
F5CG
"come down now", but we'll stay
Outro: CGF5CG }x2 C
