Chords
The Wings That Fly Us Home

Key: D

Introduction:  D  

difficulty
intermediate |||||
                     D                                                   G                           D 
There are many ways of being in this circle we call life
     D                                                                   Em                                 A7 
A wise man seeks an answer burns his candle through the night
           D                                               D7                         G 
Is a jewel just a pebble that found a way to shine
             G                                 D                               Em                       A7 
Is an hero's blood more righteous than a hobo's sip of wine
             D                                                               G                         D 
Did I speak to you one morning on some distant world away
                 D                                                           Em                   A7 
Did you save me from an arrow, did you lay me in a grave
                 D                                                           D7                           G 
Were we brothers on a journey, did you teach me how to run
                 G                         D                         Em                         A7 
Were we broken by the waters, did I lie you in the sun
     G                                   Bm           F#m/C#     D 
I dreamed you were a prophet in     the meadow
     G                             Bm             F#m/C#       D             D7 
I dreamed I was a mountain in       the wind
     G                                         Bm                 F#m/C#     D 
I dreamed you knelt and touched me with     a flower
     G                                 Em                     A7 
I awoke with this a flower in my hand
     D                                                               G                     D 
I know that love is seeing all the infinite in one
               D                                                               Em                         A7 
In the brotherhood of creatures who the father who the son
         D                                                       D7                                         G 
The vision of your goodness will sustain me through the cold
                 G                         D                             Em                       A7 
Take my hand now to remember when you find yourself alone,
                           A7                       D 
You're never alone and the spirit fills the darkness of the heavens
       G                                                                 D       D7 
It fills the endless yearning of the soul
       G                           Bm             F#m/C#         D 
It lives within a star too far         to dream of,
       G                                 Bm             F#m/C#         A7 
It lives within each part and is         the whole
               G       F#m         Em                 A7         D         G 
It's a fire and the wings that fly us home,
 A           D         G   A11       D         G     D 
fly us home,       fly us home.