Key: Ab major
Verse 1
F
G
I live in a country of echoes.
B
Bb
a dead genius screams the star -spangled banner
out into the abolished afternoon.
G
C
Bb
C
Electric, tortured, perfect.
Bb
G
Eb
A
Girls twist round the maypole,
Am
C
war cries,
hide and bone in a fire's light
before this world was ever cured.
C
G
They are a thing to behold.
C
G
Then came the voices of many women,
C
B
C
patient sonnets of childbirth and lamentation.
C
G
I walk a landscape of shadows.
G
C
Over and over, crimson and clover
But didn't I tell myself
I'd set out?
C
G
Didn't I tell myself I'd court adventure
C
G
Play the lover, make my fortune
my ship will come in
B
C
dead an d undying,
Bb
B
caught upon the wind like all the rest,
G
B
and they wail very soft.
G
F
Unless you leave, unless you run
G
C
G
Am
Yet here I am, I'm a mile high
G
G
F#
G
Crow's feet now, laugh lines,
C
B
Lost in the twilight's last gleaming
My ship will come in
My ship will come in
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