Chords with lyrics
Tuning: G C E A (G C E A)
* = strum once
Intro:
C
Chorus 1:
C
i breathe stories
i breathe them in and out
F G*
there’s nothing like the witness of a world that’s being born
C
i breathe stories
my lungs are filled with pirate ships
F* G*
and towers built, and towers falling down
Verse 1:
F
i speak rivers into motion
C
i raise mountains with abandon
G
i write cities sprawling over land
Am
and people to complete them
F C
i tell stories of my family in a world that i have written
G*
and my family breathes my stories
C
my love is etched in continents and seas
Chorus 2:
C
we are stories
beginnings, middles, ends
F G*
our power lies in living lives that touch a life or two
C
we are stories
F*
our families have grown to hold the lives
that touch the lives
G* Gsus4 G*
that touch the lives that we do
Verse 2:
F
we are poetry in motion
C
and our words give life to action
G
in this world we’ve built on games of chance
Am
and hours of introspection
F
let our stories turn to tidal waves
C
that sweep our families home again
G*
and maps are etched in memories
and melodies
C
and who we want to be
Chorus 3:
C
i breathe stories
i breathe them in and out
F* G*
and stories stitched together are how families are born
C
we are stories
F*
our lives are built on weaving all our stories
Gsus4 G*
into worlds we call our own
Verse 3:
F
we are power, we’re devotion
C
love each other with abandon
G
we are rivers, mountains, cities
Am
and the tapestry that holds them
F
my heart is in the brushstrokes
C
of the world that i have written
G*
and my family breathes my stories
my love is etched in continents and seas
Outro:
C