Key: Eb major
Intro 1
D
Bm
D
Verse 1
G
D
That mo ment I'd risen,
I shaved my head
Doing so that morning began with a grin,
It was middle of
May, the seasons were bending,
G
D
I with the seasons could predict no ending.
G
D
Lived in the moment, be ing as it were,
C#
A
D
that moment surrendered and led me to her.
C#
D
F#
G
Ex change and glances are eyes by a thread
D
Bm
D
I took to ride over by tilting my head
While one of her friends
the door
A
D
In the dark we played
records with everyone
Em
G
She asked me about home, if I missed it at all
I thought, mama, oh mama,
D
Bm
D
I've been meaning to call
The band went home, I stayed behind
Muskegon
Milwaukee
Line
Arrived at her door to clutch
all her heartstrings
I followed her to beaches,
we slept on the dunes
I still see her eyes lit by
fragments of moons
Em
D
But time kept insisting
Em
G
She slept while the second
hand spun on the
wall I thought,
Mama, oh,
Mama,
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Bm
D
Benita took off
I didn't want to lose her,
bought two tickets home
We left
Copper
Harbor, scared to be alone
Standing there watching
our feet off the plane
Each step she took further,
I was less the same
I was running from whoever I was at the time I
G
D
went running right into the middle of a
crime I was plowing in the
quicksand just to get
above the grime
Just to come up for some
air I was climbing
to climb
And I didn't mean to hurt
you when I turned
D
A
you were well on your way.
Em
F#m
D
G
And I went to the river where all sinners meet,
Em
D
watched the animals run from headlights
D
I thought I'm like all the rest, I just want to be impressed,
G
Em
D
Emily I've been meaning,
G
Em
D
G
Emily I've been meaning
D
Em
to call
D
D
D
G
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