verse 1
D
She went out and found
A G
Her father face down on the ground
A
Out in the cold
verse 2
D
She walked her way around
A G
A hill with the sun sinking down
A
Into the snow
verse 3
Em G D A
All the whitecaps of the waves slap
Em G
Like last hand claps
A Em
And the dark water dies in a crash
D
Is sucked back with a moan
A
And the smoke on the coast
verse 4
Em
Oh, piled fathers
G A
Soft, sighing daughters
Em G A
Where does it go?
Instrumental
D
Verse 5
D
It's a dream, now
A
I'll describe
G A
Let your mind drift on down, like so
Verse 6
D
To when the world was young
A G
A big sky, blue of a dead bachelor's tongue
A
A new bloom on the rose
Interlude
Em G
So some line someone told says
D A
Even light can get old
Verse 7
Em
Oh, slobbering lovers
G
Drink-clinking brothers
A Em G A x3
They don't have to tell us, 'cause we know
Instrumental
D
Verse 8
D
What a way down
A G
What a ride, what a slide spin-around
A
What a life to have known
Verse 9
D
What a time
A G
And how I was singing out in a crowd
A
Of the thousand most frightening faces I've known
verse 10
Em G
And when the lighthouse
D A
Lending us sight finally went out
Em G
What a fright we felt
A
In that night
verse 11
Em
Friends just shout it out
D
All the whys and don't knows
A
All the cries in our throats
Em G
And how right we felt
verse 12
D
With our eyes tightly closed
A
Holding something we broke
Em
And then whimpering sisters
G
Sobbing well-wishers
A
It's over
Outro
D
Just let my hand go