WWW.AZCHORDS.COM | Joanna Newsom - Leaving The City Chords | Ver. 1
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[Verse A]
Dm F5
Hay and a clean stall
Bb5 Dm
And ivy on a garden wall
F5
And a sign saying sold
Bb5 Dm
And an old coat for the bad cold
[Instrumental]
D5 C5 Bb5 C5 [x2]
[Verse B]
D5 C5 Bb5
I believe in you
D5 C5 Bb5
Do you believe in me?
D5 C5 Bb5
What do you want to do?
D5 C5 Bb5
Are we leaving the city?
D5 C5 Bb5
On the black road
D5 C5 Bb5
Through the gold fields
D5 C5 Bb5
While the fiends are plowed
D5 C5 Bb5
Towards what we are allowed
[Verse C]
Dm C
The bridle bends in idle hands
Bb Dm
And slows your canter to a trot
C Bb
We mean to stop in increments
Dm C Bb
But can't commit, we post and sit in impotence
Dm C Bb
The harder the hit, the deeper the dent
Dm C Bb
We seek our name, we seek out fame
Dm C Bb
In our credentials, paned in glass
Dm C Bb
Trying to master incidentals
Dm C Bb
Bleach a collar, leech a dollar from our cents
Dm C Bb
The longer you live, the higher the rent
[Verse B]
D5 C5 Bb5
Beneath a pale sky
D5 C5 Bb5
Beside the red barn
D5 C5 Bb5
Below the white clouds
D5 C5 Bb5
Is all we are allowed
D5 C5 Bb5
Here, the light will seep
D5 C5 Bb5
And the scythe will reap
D5 C5 Bb5
And spirit will rend
D5 C5 Bb5
In counting toward the end
[Instrumental]
Dm C Bb [x2]
[Verse C]
Dm C
In December of that year
Bb Dm
The word came down that she was here
C
The days were shorter
Bb Dm C
I was sure if she came round
Bb
I'd hold my ground
Dm C Bb
I can do what they alluded to
Dm
A change that came to pass
C Bb
And spring did range, weeping grass
Dm C
And sleepless broke
Bb Dm
Itself upon my winter glass
C Bb
And I could barely breathe for seeing
Dm C Bb
All the splintered light that leaked
Dm C
A fish is fleeting, launched in flight
Dm Dm
Unstaunched daylight, brightly bleeding
C Bb
Bleached the night with dawn deleting
[Verse B]
D5 C5 Bb5
In that high sun
D5 C5 Bb5
After our good run
D5 C5 Bb5
When the spirit bends
D5 C5 Bb5
Beneath knowing it must end
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And that is all I want here
D5 C5 Bb5
To draw my gaunt spirit to bow
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Beneath what I am allowed
D5 C5 Bb5
Beneath what I am allowed
Dm C Bb
Beneath what I am allowed
Dm C Bb [repeat to fade]