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Chords
E A D G B e
D5 x x 0 2 3 x
Dm x x 0 2 3 1
F 1 3 3 2 1 1
F5 x x 3 5 6 x
Gm 3 5 5 3 3 3
Bb5 x x x 3 6 6
C5 x 3 5 5 x x
C x 3 2 0 1 0
Bb x 1 3 3 3 1
A5 x 0 2 2 x x
Am x 0 2 2 1 0
[Intro - this tab]
D5 Dm
e|-----------------|-----3-1---0---1-----|-5-6-5-3-2---6-8-6-5-------------|
B|-----------------|-3-------------------|---------------------6-5h6p5---3-|
G|---2---2---2---2-|---------------------|---------------------------------|
D|-0---0---0---0---|---------------------|---------------------------------|
A|-----------------|---------------------|---------------------------------|
E|-----------------|---------------------|---------------------------------|
[Verse A]
Dm F
Hay and a clean stall
Gm Bb5 A5 Dm
And iv - y on a garden wall
F5
And a sign saying sold
Gm Bb5 A5 Dm
And an old coat for the bad cold
[Instrumental]
Dm Am Dm D5
F Bb Gm
Dm
[Verse B]
D5 C5 Bb5
I believe in you
D5 C5 Bb5
Do you believe in me?
D5 C5 Bb5
What do you want to do?
D5 C5 Bb5
Are we leaving the city?
D5 C5 Bb5
On the black road
D5 C5 Bb5
Through the gold fields
D5 C5 Bb5
While the fiends are plowed
D5 C5 Bb5 Dm
Towards what we are allowed
[Verse C]
D5 F5
The bridle bends in idle hands
Bb5 D5
And slows your canter to a trot
F5 Bb5
We mean to stop in increments
D5 F5 Bb5
But can’t commit, we post and sit in impotence
D5 F5 Bb5
The harder the hit, the deeper the dent
D5 F5 Bb5
We seek our name, we seek out fame
D5 F5 Bb5
In our credentials, paned in glass
D5 F5 Bb5
Trying to master incidentals
D5 F5 Bb5
Bleach a collar, leech a dollar from our cents
D5 F5 Bb5
The longer you live, the higher the rent
[Verse B]
D5 F5 Bb5
Beneath a pale sky
D5 F5 Bb5
Beside the red barn
D5 F5 Bb5
Below the white clouds
D5 F5 Bb5
Is all we are allowed
D5 F5 Bb5
Here, the light will seep
D5 F5 Bb5
And the scythe will reap
D5 F5 Bb5
And spirit will rend
D5 F5 Bb5
In counting toward the end
[Verse C]
D5 F5
In December of that year
Bb5 D5
The word came down that she was here
F5
The days were shorter
Bb5 D5 F5
I was sure if she came round
Bb5
I’d hold my ground
D5 F5 Bb5
I can do what they alluded to
D5
A change that came to pass
F5 Bb5
And spring did range, weeping grass
D5 F5
And sleepless broke
Bb5 D5
Itself upon my winter glass
F5 Bb5
And I could barely breathe for seeing
D5 F5 Bb5
All the splintered light that leaked
D5 F5
A fish is fleeting, launched in flight
D5 D5
Unstaunched daylight, brightly bleeding
F5 Bb5
Bleached the night with dawn deleting
[Verse B]
D5 F5 Bb5
In that high sun
D5 F5 Bb5
After our good run
D5 F5 Bb5
When the spirit bends
D5 F5 Bb5
Beneath knowing it must end
D5 F5 Bb5
And that is all I want here
D5 F5 Bb5
To draw my gaunt spirit to bow
D5 F5 Bb5
Beneath what I am allowed
D5 F5 Bb5
Beneath what I am allowed
Dm F Bb
Beneath what I am allowed
Other versions of this song
- Leaving The City (Intro)
Song History
Last Updated: November 30, -0001