Carbon Leaf – Block Of Wood (Guitar)

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[Intro] D / G / D / G / D /// A /// [Verse 1]
D           G                D
Grab your heart we need to leave

            G              D
There's no time to cry or grieve

                       A
For the fallen family tree

D      G                  D
Rise above the flooding plain

           G                D
Crouching low to duck the flame

                          A
Generations against the grain

                           D
Up in smoke and down the drain

        G                 D
Narrow pass and gaining speed

              G              D
A judgement lapse is all we need

                           A
To make the treachery complete

D     G                D
Fire from the mountainside

          G             D
Floods below not far behind

                             A
We rise we work, we fall we swim

                      D
Best to let the water in
[Pre-Chorus]
        G             D
If the fire, if the flood

           G                   D
Burns the tree and thins the blood

                             A
If your tears don't want to dry
[Chorus]
                D          G
I can help you cry

              D
Through the night

  G                    D
Through the night and day

                        A
I can't take your pain away

                   D
But I can help you cry
[Verse 2]
            G            D
Returning prodigals and home

          G               D
Learning all there is to know

                        A
About reaping what you sow

D   G               D
S O S with dot and dash

       G                  D
Morse code, the fire and ash

                          A
What we have will have to do

                               D
To work the ground and start anew

                G               D
We'll cut the branch from this tree

          G                D
Carve a place for you and me

                             A
A wooden seat that we can string

                             D
From a branch where we can swing

       G                  D
We'll take this block of wood

          G                D
Carve it down and sand it good

                      A
When finished it will be

                          D
A souvenir of the family tree
[Pre-Chorus]
             G            D
And if the fire, if the flood

            G                 D
Burns the tree and thins the blood

                           A
If your tears don't wanna dry
[Chorus]
                 D            G
I can help you cry

              D
Through the night

G                      D
Through the night and day

                         A
I can't take your pain away

                    D         G
But I can help you cry

             D
Through the night

G                      D
Through the night and day

                        A
I can't take your pain away
I can try but [Bridge]
 F   C        G
God help me please

      F         C      G
Come save the family tree

      F        C         G
My friends I broke them all

       F      C       G
When falling off the wall
[Verse 3]
D       G             D
In the ash I found an ember

           G             D
Something warm to help remember

                              A
A block of wood that used to be

                      D
A strong tall family tree

                      A
A strong tall family tree

N.C.              D
Blowing in the breeze
[Chorus]
   G             D
Cry through the night

G                      D
Through the night and day

                         A
I can't take your pain away

                    D               G
But I can help you cry

             D
Through the night

G                      D
Through the night and day

                         A
I can't take your pain away

                    D
But I can help you cry
[Outro] D / G / D / G / D /// A ///