The Plumb Line chords by Carrie Newcomer

Tuning: Standard (E A D G B E)

Intro:
Em

Verse:
                            D
It's a world of light and a world of mist
  C                      G             A7
A place we fell and the way we kissed
                       C
It's what I saw and all I missed

Verse:
Em              D
Voices howl and voices sing
     C                     G
In a landscape filled with broken things
       A7                  C              G
In the troubled waters and rising wings

Chorus:
         D    G    A7              C      G
I didn't know that I could be this blind
         D       A7            C        D     G
I didn't plan to live in these troubled times
           D          A7          C         D       Em
But here I am, here I am, holding on to the plumb line

Verse:
                                           D
Sometimes you hunt the bear, sometimes the bear hunts you
    C                            G
Sometimes you're the foot, other times the shoe
A7                     C
Some days the only way out is through

Verse:
          Em                    D
There's a tree in the centre of each acorn
          C                    G             A7
There's a quiet place in every raging storm
                     C              G
Something ending and being born

Chorus:
         D    G    A7              C      G
I didn't know that I could be this blind
         D       A7            C        D     G
I didn't plan to live in these troubled times
           D          A7          C         D       Em
But here I am, here I am, holding on to the plumb line

Instrumental:
Em   D   C   G   A7   C
G   D   A7   C D Em       C

Bridge:
             D                Em      C
I don't know why some fall so hard
         D              Em        C
Why some questions go unspoken
                D            Em
Why some hearts shatter into shards
                 A7    C       Em
And others break open, open

Verse:
                        D
I can drive and you can read the map
       C                       G
On the long quiet road called 'there and back'
         A7                      C
In every mended thing, there was once a crack

Verse:
       Em                  D
It's a world of rain and a world of stone
     C                  G
I'll rest in all that I still don't know
     A7            C              G
What I embrace and I'll let go

Chorus:
         D    G    A7              C      G
I didn't know that I could be this blind
         D       A7            C        D     G
I didn't plan to live in these troubled times
           D          A7          C         D       Em
But here I am, here I am, holding on to the plumb line