Carry Us Home

Intro: 
Am G C 
Am G C 
Am G C 


[Verso 1]
 
     Am        G                        C 
The iced-over river still braiding its chain 
     Am              G               C 
The heart will break open until it remains 
Am             G                     C 
Torn deep and worn as our Father's refrain 
    Am           G           C     C/B 
Oh, boys, which side are you on? 
 


[Verso 2]
 
    Am               G                         C 
We brought down the lighthouse, it fell like a tree 
        Am          G                    C 
In the gray of the blues ever-singing in me 
      Am      G                        C 
The riderless horse that stands at the sea 
      Am         G       C     C/B 
Just waiting to carry us home 
 


[Verso 3]
 
     Am           G                       C 
The stockade in Brighton is cold and it's mean 

       Am        G                            C 
As the iron-ore country down through Bowling Green 
       Am         G                         C 
Where Moses once stood with his back to the king 
     Am          G       C    C/B 
Then took to the river alone 
 


[Verso 4]
 
    Am          G                      C 
Now comes a new day in the wake of the stars 
      Am         G                        C 
That gamble and smoke out the back of the bar 
 Am            G                        C 
Warming their hands on the hood of the car 
      Am        G         C     C/B 
Just waiting to carry us home  

Solo: 1 
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[Ponte]
 
 F                                       C 
Alone and disheartened, the wind by the door 
 Am                   G 
Stands and delivers a most-human roar 
F                                C 
Asking for nothing and saying no more 
    Am                       G 
Oh, whose road will lead us back home?  

Solo: 2 
Am G C Am G C Am G C Am G C C/B 


[Verso 5]
 
       Am            G                    C 
Whose wall is this, suddenly stands in my yard? 
 Am         G                       C 
Aloof and unmoving and scathing and hard 
          Am           G                   C 
Like the face of lost time, embattled and scarred 
 Am          G          C 
Dreaming of all yet to come 
 


[Verso 6]
 
          Am              G                      C 
When the light will play tricks on the innocent sky 
  Am         G                        C 
Bring it to close like the day by and by 
Am          G                          C 
Time will stand still for both you and I 
      Am         G       C    C/B  Am G C 
Just waiting to carry us home 
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Just waiting to carry us home 
 

Outro: 
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