Tonart: C major
Verse 1
G
F
Am
Whose is the hand that I will hold?
G
F
C
Whose is the face I will see?
G
D
Am
Whose is the name that I will call
G
F
When I am called to meet
Interlude 1
Am
C
G
C
G
Am
Verse 2
G
F
A
In this life who did you love
G
F
C
Beneath the drifting ashes?
G
D
Am
Beneath the sheeting banks of air
G
F
That barrenly bore our ration
Interlude 2
Am
C
G
F
G
Am
Verse 3
G
F
Am
When I could speak it was too late
G
F
C
Didn't you hear me calling?
G
D
Am
Didn't you see my heart leap like
A
G
F
A pup in the constant
Interlude 3
Am
C
G
Am
Verse 4
G
F
Am
In this new life where did you crouch
G
F
C
When the sky had set to boiling?
G
D
Am
Burning within, seen from without
G
F
A
And your gut was a serpent coiling
Verse 5
Am
C
And for the sake of that pit of snakes
Am
And spend all your mercy
F
G
A
bending cypress
Verse 6
D
C
G
F
Show, pro- heart that you have got gall
F#m
A
A miracle
D
C
G
F
I can bear a lot but not that pall
Am
C
I can bear a lot, but not that pall
G
D
Kingfisher sound the alarm
Dm
Say sweet little darling
C
G
Tell me all about the love
Am
you left on the farm
Verse 7
Am
C
He was a kind, unhurried man
G
D
With a heavy lip and a steady hand
Dm
C
G
But he loved me just like a little child
Like a little child loves
F
G
Am
a little lamb
Verse 8
G
Thrown to the ground by
F
A
something down there
G
F
Bitten by the bad air while
C
G
the clouds tick
D
Am
Trying to read all the signs
G
F
Preparing for when the bombs
A
hit
Interlude 4
A
Am
C
G
C
G
F
Am
Verse 9
G
D
Hung from the underbelly
Am
D
G
of the earth
Bm
D
C
G
While the stars skid away below
C
D
Gormless and
Em
brakeless, gravel- loose
D
Dm
A
C
Falling silent as gavels in
the snow
Am
C
Verse 10
G
F
Am
A
F#m
I lay back and
D
C
G
F
Wrapped in the long arm of the law
F#m
A
Who has seen it all
D
C
G
F
I can bear a lot but not that pall
Am
C
G
I can bear a lot but not that pall
D
Bm
D
Kingfisher, cast your fly
Dm
C
O lord, it happens without even trying
G
When I sling a low look from
F
Am
my shuttering eye
Verse 11
G
Am
F
Blows rain upon the one you loved
Am
G
F
And though you were only sparring
C
G
There's blood on the eye,
D
Am
unlace the glove
G
F
Say, honey, I am not sorry
Am
A
Am
C
G
Verse 12
Am
A
G
Stand here and name the
F
Am
one you loved
G
F
C
G
Beneath the drifting ashes
D
Am
G
And in naming, rise above time
A
passes
Interlude 5
Am
C
G
D
A
Am
C
G
D
A
Verse 13
C
G
the boatload
D
Am
And were immobilized
A
C
Worshiping volcanoes
G
D
Am
Charting the loping skies
Verse 14
C
G
The tides of the earth left
D
Us bound and calcified and
Am
C
Obstinate as obsidian
G
D
A
Unmoving, save our eyes
Verse 15
C
G
Just mooning and blinking
D
A
From faces marked with coal
Am
C
G
Ash cooling and shrinking
D
Am
Cracks loud as thunder rolling, I swear
Verse 16
Am
C
G
I know you, you know me
A
G
D
Am
Where have we met
before, tell me true?
C
G
To whose authority
D
Do you consign your soul?
Verse 17
Am
C
I had a dream you came to me
G
D
Saying, you shall not do me harm anymore
A
Am
C
And with your knife you evicted my life
G
From its little lighthouse on the seashore
Verse 18
that my blood
G
Spreading in a circle like
Dm
Soaking and felling everything in its path
G
F
Am
And welling in my heart like a birdbath
Verse 19
C
It is too short, the day we are born
D
We commence with our dying
Dm
Trying to serve with the heart
C
G
of a child
A
Kingfisher lie with the lion
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