Lake Song chords by The Decemberists

Chords with lyrics

Intro: D MajorD

E minorEm
Down by the lake
We were overturning pebbles
                 D MajorD
And upending all the animals alight
E minorEm
And I took a drag
From your cigarette and pinched it
'Tween my finger and my thumb
     D MajorD
Till it died
    E minorEm           D MajorD
And the sun burned low on the radio
E minorEm
Say that you will
Say you will or will you won't
Or you whatever you prevaricate
      D MajorD
Your whole life, don't you?
E minorEm
This much I can say:
I would've waited till the oceans
Fell Away and all the sunken cities
         D MajorD
Would reveal themselves to you
     E minorEm
But you won't, will you?
       D MajorD
Because you never do
    E minorEm
And the sun burned through
        D MajorD
Sweet as honeydew
  B minorBm
And I
A augmentedA             G+G
Seventeen and terminally fey
 F# minorF#m               E minorEm
I wrote it down and threw it all away
                G+G
Never gave a thought to what I'd paid
  B minorBm
And you
A augmentedA               G+G
Sibylline, reclining in your pew
F# minorF#m               E minorEm
You tattered me, you tethered me to you
                G+G
The things you would and wouldn't do
                 D MajorD
To tell the truth I never had a clue

E minorEm  D MajorD

E minorEm
Now we arise
To curse those young suburban villains
                     D MajorD
And their ill-begotten children from the lawn
E minorEm
Come to me now
And on this station wagon window
Set the ghost of your two footprints
         D MajorD
That they might haunt me when you're gone
       E minorEm
And when the light broke dawn
     D MajorD
You were forever gone
    E minorEm
But I remember you, you were full
               D MajorD
You were full and sweet as honeydew
  B minorBm
And I
A augmentedA            G+G
Seventeen and terminally fey
F# minorF#m              E minorEm
I wrote it down and threw it all away
              G+G
And never gave a thought to what I paid
   B minorBm    A augmentedA             G+G
And you all sibylline, reclining in your pew
F# minorF#m                 E minorEm
You tattered me, you tethered me to you
                 G+G
The things you would and wouldn't do
                D MajorD
You noticed how I never had a clue
Never had a clue
You were full and sweet as honeydew
You were full and sweet as honeydew

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