Brandi Carlile – Returning To Myself (Guitar)

Key
-
Versions (2)

Auto-scroll

Chords

[Intro] D G [Verse 1]
              G
Is there some freewheeling watcher

         D
Shooting marbles in the sky?

             Em
Holding your years between their fingers

            G
Watching it burn 'til the fire dies
Why is it heroic to untether?
        D
How is alone some holy grail?

          Em                   Bm
And if we really come and go unknown

           C
Couldn't I find myself in jail?
[Chorus]
    D             G
Oh, keeper, how I love you

       C                G
I love you and you and you

      D            C              A7              C
And returning to myself is such a lonely thing to do

                           G  D C G
But it's the only thing to do
[Verse 2]
      G
Is it evolving, turning inward?

            D
Oh, what an easy way to be

     Em
Only kneeling at the altar of

    C#m
The great and mighty me

       G
Let me break myself apart instead

D
And scatter to my birds

       C            G
Like a burial at sea

          C
To be the gospel without words
[Chorus]
       D               G
Oh, my darlings, how I love you

       C                G
I love you and you and you

      D            C              A7              C
And returning to myself is such a lonely thing to do

                           G  D C G
But it's the only thing to do
[Instrumental] G D G C D C G [Verse 3]
           G
There's no honor in the pilgrimage

  C            G
Until a soul returns

   C                       G
To hold another's hand and then
And only then, it learns
     G
That life is like a stone

     D
Only skipping for a time

       G
Oh, it never really holds its own

            C
It'll never see the other side
[Chorus]
    D             G
And I was born to love you

       C               G
I love you and you and you

      D            C              A7              C
Oh, returning to myself is such a lonely thing to do

  D            C              A7            C
Returning to myself is just returning me to you

                                         G
And that's the only thing that I want to do
[Outro] D G C G