Chords with lyrics
Tuning: Standard (E A D G B E)
Key: A augmentedA
Difficulty: Novice
Verse 1:
C majorC FF G+G
It's the season of dust trailing old pick up trucks
E minorEm A minorAm DmDm G+G
Seashells washed ashore down by the docks
C majorC FF G+G
So baby pull on your blue jeans turn the radio loud
A minorAm FF G+G C majorC FF C majorC
Don't wait for the hour to give birth to doubt
Verse 2:
C majorC FF G+G
In the peak harvest of snakebites and wasted hindsight
E minorEm A minorAm DmDm G+G
When trivial truths sit next to the taillights
C majorC FF G+G
When fenders of chrome they rattle and hum
A minorAm FF G+G C majorC FF C majorC
All carved in the shape of freedom
Verse 3:
C majorC FF G+G
Those flea market stalls in the bone dry noon
E minorEm A minorAm DmDm G+G
Despite pretty signs, look cursed and marooned
C majorC FF G+G
And trumpet notes wailing from the candy store
A minorAm FF G+G C majorC FF C majorC
Like a work of art of uneasy rapport
Verse 4:
C majorC FF G+G
The wreckage, the blunder, the tarot read
E minorEm A minorAm DmDm G+G
In the heat blurry air we're down in the field
C majorC FF G+G
Where to the choir of cicadas' jubilee
A minorAm FF G+G C majorC FF C majorC
Among the clouds we once fell asleep
Verse 5:
C majorC FF G+G
The sirens of the shipyard by those derelict whales
E minorEm A minorAm DmDm G+G
Old mothers singing rusty old tales
C majorC FF G+G
Like revving engines keening sky high
A minorAm FF G+G C majorC FF C majorC
Yet theirs is never a war cry
Verse 6:
C majorC FF G+G
So I'll be your lover now, brazen and bright
E minorEm A minorAm DmDm G+G
Like the flare of a match you struck in the night
C majorC FF G+G
Though what does a stray know about holy and true
A minorAm FF G+G C majorC FF C majorC
But I'll always come to your rescue
Coda:
DmDm C majorC FF
Oh lord won't you hear your children cry
BB FF BB FF
Singing their praise and their hallelujahs
DmDm C majorC FF
I have no more words to describe
BB FF C majorC FF
An empty sky of hollow blue, yeah
DmDm C majorC FF
So where is my lover, my firelight
BB FF BB FF
The line on the edge of truth and rumour
DmDm C majorC FF
We took our vows in the heart of the night
C majorC FF C majorC BB
We were brazen and bright, when we were brazen and bright