Returning To Myself chords by Brandi Carlile

• Difficulty: Intermediate 💪

Intro:

D G


Verse 1:
              G
Is there some freewheeling watcher
         D
Shooting marbles in the sky?
             Em
Holding your years between their fingers
            G
Watching it burn 'til the fire dies

Why is it heroic to untether?
        D
How is alone some holy grail?
          Em                   Bm
And if we really come and go unknown
           C
Couldn't I find myself in jail

Chorus:
   D             G
Oh keeper, how I love you
       C                G
I love you and you and you
      D            C              A7              C
And returning to myself is such a lonely thing to do
                           G  D C G
But it's the only thing to do


Verse 2:
      G
Is it evolving turning inward?
           D
Oh what an easy way to be
     Em
Only kneeling at the altar of
    C#m
The great and mighty me
       G
Let me break myself apart
        D
Instead and scatter to my birds
       C            G
Like a burial at sea
          C
To be the gospel without words


Chorus:
      D              G
Oh my darlings how I love you
       C                G
I love you and you and you
      D            C              A7              C
And returning to myself is such a lonely thing to do
                           G  D C G
But it's the only thing to do

Instrumental:
G D G
C D C G


Bridge:
           G
There's no honor in the pilgrimage
  C            G
Until a soul returns
   C
To hold another's hand
    G
And then, and only then it learns


Verse 3:
     G
That life is like a stone
     D
Only skipping for a time
      G
Oh it never really holds its own
            C
It'll never see the other side


Chorus:
    D             G
And I was born to love you
       C               G
I love you and you and you
      D            C              A7              C
Oh, returning to myself is such a lonely thing to do
  D            C              A7            C
Returning to myself is just returning me to you
                                     G
That's the only thing that I want to do


Outro:
D G C
G