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 
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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