The Plumb Line chords by Carrie Newcomer

Chords with lyrics

Tuning: Standard (E MajorE A augmentedA D MajorD G+G BB E MajorE)

Intro:
E minorEm

Verse:
              D MajorD
It's a world of light and a world of mist
 C majorC           G+G       A7A7
A augmentedA place we fell and the way we kissed
            C majorC
It's what I saw and all I missed

Verse:
E minorEm       D MajorD
Voices howl and voices sing
   C majorC           G+G
In a landscape filled with broken things
    A7A7         C majorC       G+G
In the troubled waters and rising wings

Chorus:
     D MajorD  G+G  A7A7       C majorC   G+G
I didn't know that I could be this blind
     D MajorD    A7A7      C majorC    D MajorD   G+G
I didn't plan to live in these troubled times
      D MajorD     A7A7     C majorC     D MajorD    E minorEm
But here I am, here I am, holding on to the plumb line

Verse:
                      D MajorD
Sometimes you hunt the bear, sometimes the bear hunts you
  C majorC              G+G
Sometimes you're the foot, other times the shoe
A7A7           C majorC
Some days the only way out is through

Verse:
     E minorEm          D MajorD
There's a tree in the centre of each acorn
     C majorC          G+G       A7A7
There's a quiet place in every raging storm
           C majorC       G+G
Something ending and being born

Chorus:
     D MajorD  G+G  A7A7       C majorC   G+G
I didn't know that I could be this blind
     D MajorD    A7A7      C majorC    D MajorD   G+G
I didn't plan to live in these troubled times
      D MajorD     A7A7     C majorC     D MajorD    E minorEm
But here I am, here I am, holding on to the plumb line

Instrumental:
E minorEm  D MajorD  C majorC  G+G  A7A7  C majorC
G+G  D MajorD  A7A7  C majorC D MajorD E minorEm    C majorC

Bridge:
       D MajorD        E minorEm   C majorC
I don't know why some fall so hard
     D MajorD       E minorEm    C majorC
Why some questions go unspoken
        D MajorD      E minorEm
Why some hearts shatter into shards
         A7A7  C majorC    E minorEm
And others break open, open

Verse:
            D MajorD
I can drive and you can read the map
    C majorC            G+G
On the long quiet road called 'there and back'
     A7A7           C majorC
In every mended thing, there was once a crack

Verse:
    E minorEm         D MajorD
It's a world of rain and a world of stone
   C majorC         G+G
I'll rest in all that I still don't know
   A7A7      C majorC       G+G
What I embrace and I'll let go

Chorus:
     D MajorD  G+G  A7A7       C majorC   G+G
I didn't know that I could be this blind
     D MajorD    A7A7      C majorC    D MajorD   G+G
I didn't plan to live in these troubled times
      D MajorD     A7A7     C majorC     D MajorD    E minorEm
But here I am, here I am, holding on to the plumb line