Key: D
Introduction: Db F C C
F
There's a place I'm gonna leave to
F
When all this questioning is through
Bb
I'm gonna set my course to somewhere further North
Bb
Than my eyes have ever viewed
F
And though I know that the thought proceeds me
F
I know that others seek it too
Bb
But when I get where the needle leads me
Bb F Am
Well I swear, and I swear, you'll never lead me away again
F
And in the time when the peace of islands
F
Was first by human hand disturbed
Bb
They built their houses and they said obedience
Bb
Was all the lives of men were worth
F
And in the shadow of the temperance
F
They laid boundaries in the dirt
Bb
And when the door had a narrow entrance
Bb F
With their hands on their shirts they would pray for the non-believers
Db
And there's a place called North
Fm
And they're gathering there to sing
C
And I knock three times and beg them
Fm
But they will not let me in
Db
And "Oh, my girl" they say
Fm
"You're the carrier to no gain"
C
But I lay, what I can, somewhere North of this and
F Am
Would you turn me away again?
F
And do you go where the needle leads to
F
And when you get there will you change?
Bb
Out where the nights are soft
Bb
And now you go because you think that Paradise should be tamed
F
And how you live is by a map of humanity
F
And now you grip it 'cause you think that it saves
Bb
But I've seen what you see, it looks different to me
Bb F
I see lights to the shore and all these hearts beating other rhythms
Bb
Now they die to be born
F
And all their mysteries are dying with them
Db
And there's a place called North
Fm
And you're gathering there to sing
C
And I knock three times and beg you
Fm
But you will not let me in
Db
But though I love so hard
Fm
Now I'm the carrier to this gate
C
And I lay, what I can, somewhere North of us and
Bb Fm
Would you turn me away again?
Db
And would these winds would lift
Fm
And they carry me to your door
C
And I knock three times and tell you
Fm
I can't help where I was born
Db
But don't I love enough
Fm
Isn't holiness where it forms?
C
If I take, what I have, to the North
Bb Fm
Is there room on your piece of Heaven?
F
Oh would you turn me away again?