Nightlights Ii

	  		
E                    A      E 
  The shy and lonely hunter  
                      A    E 
who stalks across my chest  
                       A         
says “I’m only seeking glory,” yeah,  
    B           A                          
but glory never gives you any  
E                           A 
rest: me to your body in an arm chair,  
E                          A 
wrest: me to the corner of your bed,  
E                                  A 
rest: we in the place we share our tenderness,  
     B                  A             E 
it’s there I’ll rest my head another night,  
                         A 
lights at the end of the hallway  
E                                 A 
will lead you to the back of the bar  
      E              A 
where cloudy headed, late for bed,  
    B                  A 
you wonder where those fleeting families  
E                                 A 
are: you, living somewhere on the west coast  
E                            A 
are: you, just a figment of my mind  
E                             A 
aren’t you the one who always told me  
           B           A 
“boy, it’s easier with time” to be the  


E                  A 
saddest sound in a lullaby  
F#m                   B 
speck of sand in your daddy’s eye  
G#                   C#m 
broke my heart to so much as try  
   B 
to live the life that lay before me  
E                       A 
so you step tender when you don’t run  
F#m                 B 
so you surrender to everyone  
G#                   C#m 
so you remember the place you’ve come to  
    B 
But don’t forget the world adores you, 


E                   A     E 
  said “I am but my body:  
                  A      E 
heart and shaking skin.”  
                  A              
How ever will you find a safe place where  
B                     A                     E 
(you never let anyone into the space where) you  
                    A 
keep all your timid questions, like  
       E                             A 
“can I kiss you one more time before I go?”  
E                                  A 
though I know the world is full of hopeless suggestions  
     B                        A 
it’s us who get caught in the undertow, don’t you know  


E                 A 
we were born on a moving train,  
F#m                 B 
we took form in the pouring rain,  
G#                    C#m 
we try hard, but come short of explaining  
     B 
that lives are for living and hearts are for changing yeah.  
E                      A 
Forget, an instant, to stay the same!  
F#m                  B 
Not us nor mountains go as they came!  
G#                       C#m 
All these things we’ll refuse to be framed in  
     B                                           E 
From what we’ve been given to what’s rearranging yeah. 

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