The Lake And The River chords by The Dear Hunter

Chords with lyrics

• Capo on 3rd

Tuning: Standard (E MajorE A augmentedA D MajorD G+G BB E MajorE)

Difficulty: Advanced

Capo 3

Intro: (x2)
F7F7
F-F-F-F G-G-G-G

Verse 1:
A minorAm            E MajorE
Everything you'd live and die for
G+G              D7D7 D/F#D/F#
Reasons leading you through here
A minorAm
Perished matriarchal bonds
E MajorE
Failing innocence of love
G+G
When the world beckons your approach
E MajorE
It swallows you whole

Chorus:
A minorAm             DmDm
You'll believe what you're led to believe
    C majorC              E MajorE  E7E7
In the hands of ghosts we're never responsible
    FF        DmDm
Wait to see what you're meant to see
  C majorC                E MajorE
The veil lifts when you expose your soul

Verse 2:
A minorAm            A minorAm Am/B  C majorC Csus2Csus2
Pray'd I would leave this place someday
      A minorAm           A minorAm Am/B C majorC
Joined to alarm from long ago now unconcerned
       A minorAm              A minorAm Am/B C majorC
Euphorically floating upon wax wings where is the sun?
        A minorAm
I still see her face; her beauty, her grace
  A minorAm Am/B    C majorC
Transfixed like a light in front of me
FF
It follows my soul
FF       DmDm  E MajorE E7E7
And swallows me whole

Chorus:
A minorAm             DmDm
You'll believe what you're led to believe
    C majorC              E MajorE  E7E7
In the hands of ghosts we're never responsible
    FF        DmDm
Wait to see what you're meant to see
  C majorC                E MajorE
The veil lifts when you expose your soul

Bridge:
Am7Am7          Asus2Asus2
Left right, left right
Am7Am7          Asus2Asus2
Left right, left right
Am7Am7          Asus2Asus2
Left right, left right

FF E MajorE

Am7Am7          Asus2Asus2
Left right, left right
Am7Am7          Asus2Asus2
Left right, left right
Am7Am7          Asus2Asus2
Left right, left right

FF E MajorE

FF

Evicted solo:
F7F7 A minorAm (x3)
F7F7 G+G

Verse 3:
A minorAm           A minorAm Am/B C majorC Csus2Csus2
His branches reached so far before
        A minorAm          A minorAm Am/B C majorC Csus2Csus2
His leaves were bold extremities with great control
    F7F7       DmDm  E MajorE E7E7
Wasted along; he died alone

Chorus:
A minorAm DmDm
You'll believe what you're led to believe
C majorC E MajorE E7E7
In the hands of ghosts we're never responsible
FF DmDm
Wait to see what you're meant to see
C majorC E MajorE
The veil lifts when you expose your soul

Procession reprise:
A minorAm

A minorAm     DmDm    A minorAm   DmDm
She's inanimate, bloodless elegance
   C majorC      E minorEm    C majorC    E MajorE
Fatal fascination breeds a bloom of misery
A minorAm        DmDm    A minorAm   DmDm
Helpless hiding tongues, bathed in revulsion
      C majorC   E minorEm  C majorC    E MajorE
Here lies possibility wilting premature

Ending:
A minorAm

A minorAm              C majorC                 A minorAm
But the right hand hates the left and the sea's upset with the sky
       C majorC
So we press on in spite of the spite

A minorAm                                  Am/Bb C majorC
Happiness is a warm knife when the worlds on its side and your minds on fie
E MajorE          A minorAm                        Am/Bb C majorC
Don't you know that happiness is a warm knife when the world is on fire

A minorAm Am A minorAm Am-D-C C/Bb C majorC C/Bb C majorC C/Bb C majorC C/Bb (repeat until fade)