Chords with lyrics
🎸 Intro:
G+G D MajorD G+G
🎸 Verse 1:
G+G C majorC
I was born on a mountain
G+G D MajorD
I found my world among the ferns
G+G C majorC
Wrapped in Brahms as a baby
D MajorD G+G
Silently watching it burn
🎸 Verse 2:
C majorC
I came of age with a hard truth
G+G D MajorD
I saw my father stand and cry
G+G C majorC
I found a friend in Bobby Dazzler
G+G D MajorD G+G
As my family splintered inside
🎸 Verse 3:
C majorC
I gave myself to my demons
G+G D MajorD
Lost my dreams to pills and punk
G+G C majorC
I danced a long careless spiral
G+G D MajorD G+G
Through fields of sorrow and junk
🎸 Verse 4:
C majorC G+G
I am not my mother
C majorC D MajorD
I am not the words she said
C majorC G+G E minorEm
I will not bear my father’s burden
G+G D MajorD
I have cried those tears from my head
🎸 Verse 5:
G+G C majorC
I found a man
I found so many
G+G D MajorD
But there was not one who found me
G+G C majorC
I put my heart out on the highway
G+G D MajorD G+G
And watched it slowly bleed
🎸 Verse 6:
C majorC
There came a devil with a guitar
G+G D MajorD
And the promise of love so strong
G+G C majorC
I wrapped myself in his reflection
D MajorD G+G
And sold it all for a song
🎸 Verse 7:
C majorC G+G
I am not so stupid
C majorC D MajorD
As I was way back then
C majorC G+G E minorEm
I am still my father’s daughter
G+G D MajorD
I’m a Buddhist Ayn Rand
🎸 Instrumental:
D MajorD C majorC G+G C majorC D MajorD C majorC G+G E minorEm G+G D MajorD
🎸 Verse 8:
G+G C majorC
I saw a ship adrift on the ocean
G+G D MajorD
So many years, so many seas
G+G C majorC
I felt the winds blowing me closer
G+G D MajorD G+G
Till I saw that ship was me
🎸 Verse 9:
C majorC G+G
Oh come to me, handsome sailor
C majorC D MajorD
Lift me up and let me be
C majorC G+G E minorEm
Hear the song of the siren
G+G D MajorD
For that’s all I can be
🎸 Verse 10:
C majorC G+G
You will not fall and shatter
C majorC D MajorD
You will not break apart
C majorC GEm
I’m the stone
I am the water
G+G D MajorD
I’m the storm inside your heart
🎸 Instrumental:
D MajorD C majorC G+G C majorC D MajorD C majorC G+G E minorEm G+G D MajorD
🎸 Verse 11:
G+G C majorC
I trust my pen on the paper
G+G D MajorD
And the music in my head
G+G C majorC
I love sweet isolation
D MajorD G+G
And the beauty when nothing is said
🎸 Verse 12:
C majorC
I was born on a mountain
G+G D MajorD
I will die when it’s my time
G+G C majorC
I give thanks for your attention
G+G D MajorD G+G
The pleasure was all mine