[Intro]
Esus4 Amadd9 Asus2
[Verse 1]
Amadd9
a crow that's being dreamed
By a child who's being carried through the forest
Sleeping, wondering in her twilight half-awareness
Where her mother went
Esus4
I know that you died
But in this child's crow dream you survive
[Verse 2]
Amadd9
Beneath layers of magical symbolic wild animals
Inhabiting the edges of our fogged-over consciousnesses
Asus2
Grasping for something to hold
Something old
Like a name cut into a stone
Em/G
Or a bird that will make eye contact
[Verse 3]
Esus4
That's where you live now
Or at least that's where I hold you
Amadd9
And we're still here without you
Sleeping and the sun's coming up
Asus2
In the ruins of our household, we wake up again
Coming back into this
Em/G
Every day that comes, the echo of you living here gets quieter
Obscured by the loud wind of us now
Esus4
Wailing and moaning for you
But also living, talking about school
Amadd9
Making food, just surviving and still containing love
Waking up again, the baby that you knew is now a kid
Asus2
And when she looks at me with your eyes the shape of almonds
I am stirred inside and reemerge
Em/G
I go downstairs and turn on CBC and make some coffee
And boil two eggs and make two pieces of bread into toast
Esus4
And open the window and give the child some clothes
And get us sitting at the table
Where your chair still sits across from me, watching
Amadd9
I stand up to put on music
Our daughter sees and asks for mama's record
Asus2
And she's staring at the speaker with this look of recognition
Putting it together that it's you singing
Em/G
I'm sobbing and eating eggs again
You're a quiet echo on loud wind
Esus4
But when I'm trying to, I see you everywhere
In plants and birds and in our daughter
In the sun going down and coming up and in whatever
Amadd9
And the myths that used to get told around the fire
Where a seal's head pokes up through from underwater
Asus2
Crossing a threshold between two worlds, yours and mine
We were skeletally intertwined once
Em/G
But now I notice ravens instead
I don't see you anywhere
[Bridge]
Pattern changes here. No longer plucking the root note, instead a slow strum. Listen to song, but on each
chord there is a string for the second pluck. On the album there are a lot of pulloffs which you can mess
around with.
Esus4 x4 Amadd9 x4
Asus2(II) x2 Em/G x2
Esus2/F# x2 G x4
D|--0------2----4--| is played on the last playthrough of G. Listen to song to find timing
Em x2 Amadd9 x4
[Outro]
Amadd9
If you still hang in the branches
Like burnt wood, I will go out beneath
With arms reached and run my fingers through the air
Em
Where you breathed, touching your last breath
G Gsus4
Reaching through to the world of the gone with my hand empty
