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
ⓘ Guitar chords for 'Choir Of Cicadas' by Poets Of The Fall, an alternative rock band formed in 2002 from Helsinki, Finland