Words chords by Cynthia Summers

Chords with lyrics

• Capo on 1st

Cynthia Summers - Words (song For Keats)


Intro:
A minorAm DmDm A minorAm E MajorE A minorAm

Chorus:

The shadows of the trees

Breath upon your cheek
DmDm
Music on water
A minorAm
A augmentedA beautiful daughter
 E MajorE        A minorAm
A augmentedA poem spoken into mist

Verse 1:

In the picture Joseph made
  DmDm
You rest on your last bed
A minorAm
Your hair is dark and curled
E MajorE
Your eyes are closed
  A minorAm
I imagine Joseph reaching out
  DmDm
To touch you with his hand
  A minorAm
The artist who loves you
  E MajorE       A minorAm
The genius and the man


Verse 2:
  DmDm
You knew that you were leaving
  A minorAm
But not what you had done
DmDm
Despairing, grieving
  A minorAm         E MajorE
You did not know you'd won
 DmDm
A augmentedA kind of immortality
  A minorAm
The best anyone can do
       E MajorE   A minorAm
We read your words

Chorus:

The shadows of the trees
A minorAm
Breath upon your cheek
DmDm
Music on water
 A minorAm
A augmentedA beautiful daughter
 E MajorE        A minorAm
A augmentedA poem spoken into mist


Verse 3:

Your life so full of sadness
  DmDm
You tried to make it clear
  A minorAm
To weave words around
  E MajorE
The mystery
A minorAm
Death is all and nothing
  DmDm
No victory no defeat
   A minorAm
Your nightingale keeps singing
E MajorE   A minorAm
Sweet


Verse 4:
  DmDm
You knew that you were leaving
  A minorAm
But not what you had done
DmDm
Despairing, grieving
  A minorAm         E MajorE
You did not know you'd won
 DmDm
A augmentedA kind of immortality
  A minorAm
The best anyone can do
       E MajorE   A minorAm
We read your words, words


Chorus:
  DmDm     A minorAm
And what I have learned from you
    E MajorE    A minorAm
Is not easy to say
  DmDm
The shadows of the trees
A minorAm
Breath upon your cheek
DmDm
Music on water
 A minorAm
A augmentedA beautiful daughter
 E MajorE        A minorAm
A augmentedA poem spoken into mist
 E MajorE        A minorAm
A augmentedA poem spoken into mist