Chords
The High Countries

Key: D

Introduction:

         D 
A bus station, in the steam from the rain
             Bm                   A               G                                             D 
In this line of pale strangers, should I go or stay?
                                         D 
The whole field of vision, fades beneath me now
                   Bm                   A                           G 
And the houses spread for a million miles,
                               D 
in this gray town
                     Bm               Bm7                     G                           A 
And the weight of glory, if you held it in your hand
                       Bm               Bm7                     G                           A 
It would pass right through you, so now's your chance
                       Bm   Bm7   A 
Would you fall to pieces
                       Bm   Bm7   D 
Would you fall to pieces
                       Bm   Bm7   A 
Would you fall to pieces
                               D 
In the high countries?
                         D 
We are just pilgrims of the great divorce
           Bm                         A                             G                                               D 
I am witness to the light and I am captive to my own remorse
                 Bm               Bm7                     G                           A 
And the weight of glory, if you held it in your hand
                 Bm               Bm7                     G                           A 
It would pass right through you, so now's your chance
(Chorus)
                             A                   Bm                         G                         D 
You drink the cup to the bottom, but it burns in your hands
         A                           Bm                 G               A 
The cup was poured out on the Maker instead
                       D 
Out on the green plains, I am but a ghost
           Bm             A                               G                                                   D 
Bound up with all that I call mine  still the light grows
(Chorus 2x)