Lake Song chords by The Decemberists

Intro: D

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

Em  D

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