Chords
The Blue Distance

Key: F

Introduction:

 Bb  F  Am  Bb 
verse 1
                       C               F                               Bb         F 
Across the railroad tracks, down the gravel road
                       C             Dm     C               Bb 
headlights throw a beam     on the way back home.
         C                 F                       Bb       F 
Lie down, lie down, listen wide awake
               C                     F                       Bb 
To the trains that roll, to the sound time makes.
verse 2
             C                             F                   Bb         F 
It passes through the air like a summer storm
                   C         Dm         C               Bb 
Catching on my sleeve     like a rose's thorn.
           C             F                         Bb             F 
Sometimes it whispers, sometimes it roars
 C                           F                     Bb 
Flies like the wind, waits by the door.
         F  Bb             F                             Dm       F 
And I know you know and that?s all I need
                   Bb             F                           Am 
When the light of day looks like night to me
                         Bb     F                     Dm     F 
When you?re far away and I?m all alone
     Bb             F             C               F 
I can?t explain, I know you know.
Mid 8

 Bb  F  Am  Bb 
verse 3
       C                     F                             Bb       F 
It fills up my chest, it fills up my eyes
                 C                 Dm   C                     Bb 
like an old glass jar filled with fireflies.
         C                 F                   Bb           F 
Sometimes I?m still, sometimes I sigh
         C                 F                   Bb 
Sometimes I?m lost and I don?t know why
         F  Bb             F                             Dm       F 
But I know you know and that?s all I need
                   Bb             F                           Am 
When the light of day looks like night to me.
                         Bb     F                     Dm     F 
When you?re far away and I?m all alone
     Bb             F             C               F 
I can?t explain, I know you know.
Instrumental

 Bb  F  Am  Bb 
verse 4
               C             F                                 Bb               F 
In the morning light, before the heat sets in
                   C             Dm   C                 Bb 
Call the dogs to run where the shade has been.
                       C               F                             Bb         F 
Across the railroad tracks lay your silver down
                 C                   F                     Bb 
Find it smooth and flat, stars for your crown.
Verse 5
               C       F                                   Bb           F 
In the blue distance where our lives unfurl
         C                       Dm     C                       Bb 
The edges of the sky,     the beauty of the world.
         F  Bb             F                             Dm       F 
But I know you know and that?s all I need
                   Bb             F                           Am 
When the light of day looks like night to me.
                         Bb     F                     Dm     F 
When you?re far away and I?m all alone
     Bb             F             C               F 
I can?t explain, I know you know.
Outro