The Lake And The River chords by The Dear Hunter

• Capo on 3rd

Tuning: Standard (E A D G B E)

Difficulty: Advanced

Capo 3

Intro: (x2)
F7
F-F-F-F G-G-G-G

Verse 1:
Am            E
Everything you'd live and die for
G              D7 D/F#
Reasons leading you through here
Am
Perished matriarchal bonds
E

Failing innocence of love
G
When the world beckons your approach
E
It swallows you whole

Chorus:
Am             Dm
You'll believe what you're led to believe
    C              E  E7
In the hands of ghosts we're never responsible
    F        Dm
Wait to see what you're meant to see
  C                E
The veil lifts when you expose your soul

Verse 2:
Am            Am Am/B  C Csus2
Pray'd I would leave this place someday
      Am           Am Am/B C
Joined to alarm from long ago now unconcerned
       Am              Am Am/B C
Euphorically floating upon wax wings where is the sun?
        Am
I still see her face; her beauty, her grace
  Am Am/B    C
Transfixed like a light in front of me
F
It follows my soul
F       Dm  E E7
And swallows me whole

Chorus:
Am             Dm
You'll believe what you're led to believe
    C              E  E7
In the hands of ghosts we're never responsible
    F        Dm
Wait to see what you're meant to see
  C                E
The veil lifts when you expose your soul

Bridge:
Am7          Asus2
Left right, left right
Am7          Asus2
Left right, left right
Am7          Asus2
Left right, left right

F E

Am7          Asus2
Left right, left right
Am7          Asus2
Left right, left right
Am7          Asus2
Left right, left right

F E

F


Evicted solo:
F7 Am (x3)
F7 G

Verse 3:
Am           Am Am/B C Csus2
His branches reached so far before
        Am          Am Am/B C Csus2
His leaves were bold extremities with great control
    F7       Dm  E E7
Wasted along; he died alone

Chorus:
Am Dm
You'll believe what you're led to believe
C E E7
In the hands of ghosts we're never responsible
F Dm
Wait to see what you're meant to see
C E
The veil lifts when you expose your soul

Procession reprise:
Am

Am     Dm    Am   Dm
She's inanimate, bloodless elegance
   C      Em    C    E
Fatal fascination breeds a bloom of misery
Am        Dm    Am   Dm
Helpless hiding tongues, bathed in revulsion
      C   Em  C    E
Here lies possibility wilting premature

Ending:
Am

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

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

Am Am Am Am-D-C C/Bb C C/Bb C C/Bb C C/Bb (repeat until fade)