Key: D major•
Verse 1
Till the final gasp
Can the tale survive the telling
Will this feeling ever last
D
A
That calls from the mire
G
D
And dares my heart be free
Verse 2
D
Try to keep it sweet
Baby make ends meet
Heading in the right direction
Just maybe down the wrong street
D
A
That ghost in the wires
D
A
G
The mockingbird choir that calls it again
D
A
G
That old mystifier that dares
Interlude 1
Verse 3
Bm
G
D
Couldn’t you just once
G
D
G
Just once let the damn thing be
A
Bm
G
D
Going around thinking like that
G
D
G
Won’t have nothing left to hold on to
Verse 4
That a face betrays
Every hurt that burns within it
In the flicker of its gaze
D
A
G
That tells from on high of all that is blessed
D
A
G
In each day that rises east
into west
D
A
That springs from the bough
Interlude 2
D
Verse 5
Bm
G
D
Couldn’t you just once
G
D
G
Just once let the damn thing be
A
Bm
G
D
Going around talking like that
G
D
Won’t have nothing left
D
Verse 6
Feel that autumn wind
Where my hair has thinned
All the cares we never asked for
And all the loves we don’t intend
D
A
That pours through the darkness
D
A
Drinking the diesel,
D
A
That screams to the night
D
Verse 7
Dressed from head to toe
In the afterglow
Offering prayers and supplications
To quite what I’ll never know
D
A
That circle of fire that
G
D
G
that dares my heart be free
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TunerE A D G B E
ChordsD A G Bm
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