Crow Pt 2 chords by Mount Eerie

Chords with lyrics

Intro:

Esus4Esus4  Amadd9Amadd9  Asus2Asus2

Verse 1:
          Amadd9Amadd9
A augmentedA crow that's being dreamed

By a child who's being carried through the forest

Sleeping, wondering in her twilight half-awareness

Where her mother went
 Esus4Esus4
I know that you died

But in this child's crow dream you survive

Verse 2:
         Amadd9Amadd9
Beneath layers of magical symbolic wild animals

Inhabiting the edges of our fogged-over consciousnesses
        Asus2Asus2
Grasping for something to hold

Something old

Like a name cut into a stone
             Em/GEm/G
Or a bird that will make eye contact


Verse 3:
         Esus4Esus4
That's where you live now

Or at least that's where I hold you
        Amadd9Amadd9
And we're still here without you

Sleeping and the sun's coming up
           Asus2Asus2
In the ruins of our household, we wake up again

Coming back into this
             Em/GEm/G
Every day that comes, the echo of you living here gets quieter

Obscured by the loud wind of us now
      Esus4Esus4
Wailing and moaning for you

But also living, talking about school
          Amadd9Amadd9
Making food, just surviving and still containing love

Waking up again, the baby that you knew is now a kid
       Asus2Asus2
And when she looks at me with your eyes the shape of almonds

I am stirred inside and reemerge
          Em/GEm/G
I go downstairs and turn on CBC and make some coffee

And boil two eggs and make two pieces of bread into toast
                 Esus4Esus4
And open the window and give the child some clothes

And get us sitting at the table

Where your chair still sits across from me, watching
 Amadd9Amadd9
I stand up to put on music

Our daughter sees and asks for mama's record
             Asus2Asus2
And she's staring at the speaker with this look of recognition

Putting it together that it's you singing
            Em/GEm/G
I'm sobbing and eating eggs again

You're a quiet echo on loud wind
                  Esus4Esus4
But when I'm trying to, I see you everywhere

In plants and birds and in our daughter

In the sun going down and coming up and in whatever
    Amadd9Amadd9
And the myths that used to get told around the fire

Where a seal's head pokes up through from underwater
      Asus2Asus2
Crossing a threshold between two worlds, yours and mine

We were skeletally intertwined once
         Em/GEm/G
But now I notice ravens instead

I don't see you anywhere

Bridge:

Pattern changes here. No longer plucking the root note, instead a slow strum. Listen to song, but on each
chord there is a string for the second pluck. On the album there are a lot of pulloffs which you can mess
around with.

Esus4Esus4   x4   Amadd9Amadd9 x4
Asus2(II) x2   Em/GEm/G  x2
Esus2/F# x2    G+G  x4

D MajorD|--0------2----4--| is played on the last playthrough of G. Listen to song to find timing

E minorEm    x2   Amadd9Amadd9 x4


Outro:
Amadd9Amadd9
If you still hang in the branches

Like burnt wood, I will go out beneath

With arms reached and run my fingers through the air
                 E minorEm
Where you breathed, touching your last breath
      G+G                      Gsus4Gsus4
Reaching through to the world of the gone with my hand empty