Ani DiFranco – Studying Stones (Guitar)

Chord 3 (Ch3)     bm
e|--2--------------2----------|
B|--0--------------0----------|
G|--0--------------4----------|
D|--0--------------0----------|
A|--2--------------2----------|
E|--2--------------2----------|

     Bm
I am out here studying stones

           A
Trying to learn to be less alive

       G
Using all of my will

       A
To keep very still

       Bm           Ch3
Still even on the inside

          Bm
I've cut all of the pertinent wires

      A
So my eyes can't make that connection

     G
I am holding my breath

     A
I am feigning my death

     Bm                  Ch3
When I'm looking in your direction

        D
'Course numb is an old hat

          C 
Old as my oldest memories

    G
See that one's my mother

    A
And that one's my father

         Bm                    Ch3
And that one in the hat, that's me

       D
It's a skill I'd hoped to abandon

       A
When I got out on the open road

             C 
But any more pent up emotion

       A              Ch3
And I think I'm gonna explode

              Bm                  Ch3
There's never been an endeavor so strange

              A
As trying to slow the blood in my veins

   G
To keep my face blank

     A
As a stone that just sank

      Bm             Ch3
Until not a ripple remains

     Bm                  Ch3
I am high above the tree line

        A
Sitting cross legged on the ground

     G
When all of the forbidden fruit

    A
has fallen and rotted

Bm                    Ch3
That's when I'm gonna come down

        D
'Course numb is an old hat

          C 
Old as my oldest memories

    G
See that one's my mother

    A
And that one's my father

         Bm                    Ch3
And that one in the hat, that's me

       D
It's a skill I'd hoped to abandon

       A
When I got out on the open road

             C 
But any more pent up emotion

       A              Ch3
And I think I'm gonna explode