Choir Of Cicadas chords by Poets Of The Fall

Tuning: Standard (E A D G B E)

Key: A

Difficulty: Novice

Verse 1:
      C           F      G
It's the season of dust trailing old pick up trucks
   Em      Am  Dm      G
Seashells washed ashore down by the docks
     C                 F  G
So baby pull on your blue jeans turn the radio loud
    Am      F       G    C  F C
Don't wait for the hour to give birth to doubt

Verse 2:
    C                F     G
In the peak harvest of snakebites and wasted hindsight
     Em  Am      Dm    G
When trivial truths sit next to the taillights
    C          F     G
When fenders of chrome they rattle and hum
   Am      F    G  C  F C
All carved in the shape of freedom

Verse 3:
     C            F    G
Those flea market stalls in the bone dry noon
  Em      Am      Dm     G
Despite pretty signs, look cursed and marooned
   C           F       G
And trumpet notes wailing from the candy store
    Am    F    G    C  F C
Like a work of art of uneasy rapport

Verse 4:
    C            F   G
The wreckage, the blunder, the tarot read
Em       Am      Dm      G
In the heat blurry air we're down in the field
        C        F  G
Where to the choir of cicadas' jubilee
Am      F      G   C  F C
Among the clouds we once fell asleep

Verse 5:
   C               F     G
The sirens of the shipyard by those derelict whales
Em      Am   Dm    G
Old mothers singing rusty old tales
 C           F     G
Like revving engines keening sky high
   Am    F    G  C  F C
Yet theirs is never a war cry

Verse 6:

   C            F     G
So I'll be your lover now, brazen and bright
      Em    Am     Dm     G
Like the flare of a match you struck in the night
    C              F    G
Though what does a stray know about holy and true
      Am  F      G C  F C
But I'll always come to your rescue

Coda:
  Dm             C   F
Oh lord won't you hear your children cry
  B       F     B     F
Singing their praise and their hallelujahs
  Dm      C     F
I have no more words to describe
  B   F  C     F
An empty sky of hollow blue, yeah
   Dm          C  F
So where is my lover, my firelight
   B      F    B     F
The line on the edge of truth and rumour
Dm            C      F
We took our vows in the heart of the night
      C     F          C     B
We were brazen and bright, when we were brazen and bright