Big Thief – Incomprehensible (Guitar Live)

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Let me be
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Incomprehensible

D
Highway 17, cotton candy rain

Em
Driving with my lover, we missed our plane

      C
So we added on the hours to see the lupine flowers

Am
Way out past the border, we blew through Thunder Bay

    G
The pine trees are narrow, a billion broken arrows

    Em
The ravens and the crows, robins and the sparrows

C
All across Ontario, just static on the stereo

    Am
And swimming in the lake, Old Woman Bay

G
Traveling with some stuff I left when I was a kid

Em
Mr. Bear and the wooden box I hid

C
Full of broken gadgets that don't mean nothing now

    Am
The only thing I'll keep are the letters and the photographs

   D
In two days it's my birthday and I'll be 33

    Em
But that doesn't really matter next to eternity

    C
And I like a double number, and I like an odd one too

    Am
And everything I see from now on will be something new

     G
"I'm afraid of getting older", that's what I learned to say

      Em
'Cause society has given me the words to think that way

    C
The message spins and spirals, "Don't get saggy, don't get grey"

        Am
But the soft and lovely silvers are now falling on my shoulder

   G
My mother and my grandma, my great-grandmother too

     Em
They wrinkle like the river, sweeten like the dew

       C
And as silver as the rainbow scales that shimmer purple blue

        Am
How can beauty that is living be anything but true?

       G
So let gravity be my sculptor, let the wind do my hair

       Em
Let me dance in front of people without a care

       C
Let me be naked alone with nobody there

      Am
Or with mismatched socks and shoes and stuff stuffed in my underwear

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Incomprehensible

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Incomprehensible