Ive Been Meaning To Call chords by Robert Francis

TUNING
Untune your guitar half step down, that is somewhere in the middle of E and D#

CAPO ON 1

D D
Bm D
Bm D
D D

 D
 Early to rise, Early to bed
 G                       D
 That moment I'd risen I shaved my head
 G                       D
 Doing so that morning began with a grin
 A                            D
 I left behind my old fabled skin

        D
 It was middle of May, the seasons were bending
 G                        D
 I with the seasons could predict no ending
 G                    D
 Lived in the moment, being as it were
      A                                D
 That moment surrendered and led me to her

 Bm                      G
 Exchanging glances, our eyes by a thread
   D                                   Bm   D
 I tugged her right over by tilting my head
   Em                        G          D
 I followed her blind, to an old record store
                                                  A
 While one of her friends found a way through the door


         Em            Bm           G
 In the dark we played records with everyone high
 Em         Bm             G
 I held her hands when the police drove by
     Em             Bm        G
 She asked me bout' home if I missed it at all
                                                D
 I thought Mama oh Mom I've been meaning to call

Bm  D
Bm  D  D


     D
 The band went home, I stayed behind
            G                       D
 I took the Muskegon Ferry from the Milwaukee line
    G                          D
 Arrived at her door to clutch all her hearts strings
       A                                     D
 We're driving up north to forget everything

   D
 I followed her to beaches, we slept on the dunes
   G                         D
 I still see her eyes lit by fragments of moons
     G                    D
 Not crescent, nor full inside of the storm
       A                                         D
 She'd dive and resurface each time changing form


     Em         Bm          G
 But time kept insisting we both sink like rocks
 Em          Bm      G
 Time out of water resumed on the clocks
     Em              Bm          G
 She slept while the second hand spun on the wall
                                                D
 I thought Mama Oh Mom I've been meaning to call

Bm  D
Bm  D  D


   D
 I didn't wanna lose her, I bought two tickets home
    G                   D
 We left Copper Harbor scared to be alone
 G                           D
 Standing there watching our feet off the plane
      G                       D
 Each step she took further I was less the same

       D
 I was running from whoever I was at the time
        G                      D
 I went running right into the middle of a crime
       G                                D
 I was clawing in the quicksand just to get above the grime
         G                           D
 Just to come up for some air, I was climbing to climb
       G                              D
 And I didn't mean to hurt you when I turned on a dime
     A
 And just within a day you were well on your way


       Em          Bm          G
 And I went to the river where all sinners meet
             Em      Bm            G
 Watched the animals run from headlights in the street
           Em               G            Bm
 I thought I'm like all the rest, I just wanna be impressed
           Em           G                 Bm
 You gotta be above someone to watch them fall

 Em     Bm          G
 Emily I've been meaning
 Em     Bm          G
 Emily I've been meaning
 Em     Bm          G          D
 Emily I've been mea..ning to call

D Em
D Em
D Em
G D

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