You As You Were

	  		
 


         E 
When you fall at the rocks 

At the bend at the river 
         Abm 
With the blood from your nose 

Running hard on your fingers 
            B                  A 
And through the rest of your life 


E Abm B A 


      E 
The electric charge 

Of a change in the weather 
         Abm 
You were touching my arm 

You were holding a feather 
           B                A 
And then I opened my eyes 


       C#m 
As the World goes racing, suddenly changed 
                                                B 
As the shock of the axe, it leaves you trembling 
       C#m 
Like a busting shell in the small of your back 
                                                    B 
Or a job that's hard on the cast of your little lie 

And an animal life was surging away 


             E 
And you were back on the road 

Through the worst of the Winter 
           Abm 
Through the Valley of Lies 

Passing through like an arrow 


             E 
Oh , if your vision collapsed 

And a storm from the river 
       Abm 
Like a golden medalion 

Clutching tight in your fingers 
           B 
But on the slope of the edge 
         A 
Will you recover your life 


          E 
You could stand on the back of a shuddering beam 
                                    Abm 
With a pistol firing shots into the air 
          E 
You could run in the blood of the Sun's hard rays 
                                            Abm 
You could drive the mountains down into the bay 
                                            B                    
Or go back to the East where it's all so civilized 
            A 
Where I was born to the life 


         E 
But I am leaving the life 

I am leaving the life 

I am leaving the life 

I am leaving the life 
     Abm 
I am leaving the life 

I am leaving the life 

I am leaving the life 

I am leaving the life 
     B         A      E 
I am leaving