Chords with lyrics
Intro:
| F# minorF#m | F# minorF#m | E MajorE | A augmentedA | x2
| F# minorF#m | F# minorF#m | D MajorD | A augmentedA |
| C majorC | C majorC | D MajorD | D MajorD |
| A augmentedA | A augmentedA | A augmentedA | A augmentedA |
Verse 1:
C# minorC#m
I never knew you
D MajorD A/C#A/C# B minorBm
But then who really did?
F# minorF#m E MajorE
If you were at all like me
F# minorF#m B minorBm BB
You managed to keep yourself hid
B minorBm E MajorE
A augmentedA patchwork quilt of a life
D MajorD A/C#A/C#
Memories embroidered
C majorC D MajorD A augmentedA
On your soul
Verse 2:
C# minorC#m
So please forgive me
D MajorD A/C#A/C# B minorBm
For putting you in my song
F# minorF#m E MajorE
But the spirit she moves me
F# minorF#m B minorBm BB
In fact she pushes me along
B minorBm E MajorE
It's a patchwork quilt of a life
D MajorD A/C#A/C# C majorC
Can't stop the river
D MajorD A augmentedA
Just let it roll
Chorus:
F# minorF#m
We were at Jones Beach
E MajorE A augmentedA
When we got the word
F# minorF#m E MajorE A augmentedA
Saddest sound that I ever heard
F# minorF#m BB
The bluest note that nobody could play
F# minorF#m E MajorE A augmentedA
Ravens sang with us that night on the stage
F# minorF#m E MajorE A augmentedA
Tears of sadness, tears of rage
F# minorF#m D MajorD A/C#A/C# C majorC
But nobody spoke, we all felt old
D MajorD (A augmentedA)
And in the way
Interlude:
| A augmentedA | A augmentedA | A augmentedA | A augmentedA |
| C# minorC#m | C# minorC#m | C# minorC#m | C# minorC#m |
| D MajorD | A/C#A/C# | B minorBm | B minorBm |
| B minorBm | B minorBm | F# minorF#m | F# minorF#m |
| E MajorE | E MajorE | F# minorF#m | F# minorF#m |
| BB | BB | B minorBm | B minorBm |
| E MajorE | E MajorE | D MajorD | A/C#A/C# |
| C majorC | C majorC | D MajorD | D MajorD |
| A augmentedA | A augmentedA | A augmentedA | A augmentedA |
Verse 3:
C# minorC#m
So walk beside me
D MajorD A/C#A/C# B minorBm
Or above me, I don't know
F# minorF#m E MajorE
These days it sure seems
F# minorF#m BB
I'm lost where ever I go
Chorus:
F# minorF#m E MajorE A augmentedA
God, how could you, I heard someone say
F# minorF#m E MajorE A augmentedA
And what do we do with our lives now anyway?
F# minorF#m A augmentedA BB
Now that our North Star can no longer be found
F# minorF#m E MajorE A augmentedA
But there's a banjo moon in a tie-dyed sky
F# minorF#m E MajorE A augmentedA
Hippies dance and babies cry
F# minorF#m A augmentedA BB
Church bells ring as a silver-haired angel look down
D MajorD E MajorE F#F#
And the blood of his music runs through the veins of our guitars
G+G BB
Bright lights, Dark Star
Tag:
C# minorC#m
I never knew you
D MajorD A/C#A/C# B minorBm
But then who really did