Grace Notes

Intro 
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C 
When I was wandering anywhere I could 
Em 
Far beyond the riverbank, deeper than the woods 
        F 
When my naked eye said, "I'm gonna find you" 
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The night sky was nothing but stars 
          C 
When it's all I can manage, despite how I try 
     Em 
When somebody's looking where I like to hide 
  F 
I remember the moon while I swim along the bottom 
       C                       G     C Em 
When I trust you, it isn't too hard 
 

 
C 
When I could give away everything I had 
Em 
Leave a whole dream in a brown paper bag 
         F 
When the time went by, it said, "Man, that was easy" 
     C                    G 
Like honey was laid in my hand 
       C 
When I lie to myself, or I'm honest at best 
   Em 
Or sell my whole story till none of it's left 
         F 
When the sun goes down like promises matter 
     C                       G 
When that's something I understand 
 

 
         Am 
When the ghost I like to deny 
    Em 
Has haunted me all of my life 
        F 
Singing all its songs in my corners and cobwebs 
     Dm                   G 
When I let them follow me home 
             Dm                      G 
When there's so many homes that I've known 
        Dm 
So many lives that love has given me 
F                                C  Em 
Grace notes with meat on the bone 
 

 
C 
When I was being it, whatever it was 
Em 
So brave or broken, but only just enough 
        F 
When my self-respect cackled, "What were you thinking?" 
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Until it walked off the edge of the world 
       C 
When I kiss on a stone like they all roll away 
   Em 
Or call upon my demons when I don't want to play 
       F 
When I think of a cost like light from a diamond 
     C                  G 
Like freedom, feeling a pearl 
 

 
         Am 
When the garden I've watered with tears 
       Em 
Is beautiful this time of year 
            F 
And all the blossoms fall when their petals get heavy 
       Dm                 G 
When I let them follow me home 
             Dm                      G 
When there's so many homes that I've known 
        Dm 
So many lives that love has given me 
F 
Grace notes with meat on the bone  

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    Am 
The ghost you like to deny 
G 
Haunts you the rest of your life 
 

 
C 
When I would say it, though no one was around 
   Em 
Or cry like some children at a carnival clown 
   F 
Forever was a word like a name in the sidewalk 
       C                   G 
Or the wind blowing open a door 
       C 
When I make what I'm missing or claim what I stole 
        Em 
Or live like I'm digging just for filling in a hole 
       F 
When I lose so much, I just burst into laughter 
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Like someone who knows what it's for 
 

 
         Am 
When the day I pray never comes 
Em 
Presses me under its thumb 
              F 
When all this water flows, and every wave makes an ocean 
     Dm                   G 
When I let them follow me home 
             Dm                      G 
When there's so many homes that I've known 
        Dm 
So many lives that love has given me 
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Grace notes with meat on the bone