Key: F
Introduction:
F
Press your nose to the glass
Gm
Whisper freedom at last to your window
C F
Buckle your seat wrapped up warm in a sheet on your way
F
Press your ear to the fabric
Gm
Vibrations and static from nowhere
C F
The engines will spin till your dreams have caved into your eyes
F Gm
I've settled into a feeling I hope never passes
C F
I am afraid but I couldn't admit that to you
F Gm
The clocks are all sugar the minutes the move like molasses
C F
Putting holes in my teeth from the hope I've been chewing too long
C Bb F
Spitting arrows at innocent sparrows for fun
F Gm
In the sand I will whisper a thing about living
C F
A wise little word just to bounce up and down in your brain
F Gm
Then you'll realize it's love that I meant to be giving
C F
You'll smile a bit but then probably conclude I'm insane
Dm Bb
Eager eyes setting back in my head
F C
What have you done for your time?
Dm Bb
I can't read what the bible says
F C
But I'm learning to love what is mine
Dm Bb
I'm trying to care and I'm trying to carry
F C
the weight of the things I have done
Gm
Lay me my love,
Bb
Lay me my love,
Down, down
F Gm
Now the winter is passing and I am it's only companion
C F
Yes I am shooting the liquor like bullets into my regrets
F Gm
I need you here just to kill off the fear of abandon
C F
Praying dear God do you think you could help me forget
C Bb F
And the smile spills 'cross your lips when the ground you have met
C Bb F
I am terrified but I haven't wavered yet
C Bb F
Through the gate you will wonder, so lost, so alone
C Bb F
I will say to you this is the place I call home
Dm Bb
Eager eyes setting back in my head
F C
What have you done for your time?
Dm Bb
I can't read what the bible says
F C
But I'm learning to love what is mine
Dm Bb
I'm trying to care and I'm trying to carry
F C
the weight of the things I have done
Dm Bb
Hoping for answers and begging to feel
F C
As the monster that I have become
Dm Bb
Eager eyes setting back in my head
F C
Hearing son where the hell did you go?
Dm Bb
In all your travels and all you've heard said
F C
Did you hear something I didn't know?
Dm Bb
I will care for you, I look after you
F C
I will not fear the above
Gm
Lay me my love,
Bb
Lay me my love,
Gm
Lay me my love,
Bb
Lay me my love,
F
Down, down.