David Gray – Singing For The Pharaoh (Guitar)

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Chords

[Verse 1]
G  Em               Dsus4    Cadd9   G
I’m singing for the pharaoh

    Em               Cadd9    G
And I’m setting out alone

 Em                  Dsus4    Cadd9  G
Down a vast unending furrow

G    Em                  Cadd9   G
To the sound of pick on stone

G  Em                      Dsus4    Cadd9   G
Hiding from our essential natures yeah we

 Em         Dsus4    Cadd9   G
Shrink back from the bone

G    Em                  Dsus4    Cadd9   G
Well I’m singing for the pharaoh

Em               C     G
But I’m sickening for home
[Chorus]
G      Em             C      G
Can this voice carry seeds

G     Em         C               D       G
Can I seal this heart when the creature feeds

     Cadd9           Em     Cadd9  G
Can this voice carry seeds
[Verse 2]
G    Em      Dsus4     Cadd9    G
At night my dreams are full alive

Em                   C         G
With root tips and filaments

G     Em                    Dsus4       Cadd9   G
See the blush of dawn in a crow filled sky

     Em            Dsus4    Cadd9    G
And I take these sacraments

G    Em               Dsus4   Cadd9   G
Gonna burrow like a beetle

         Em            Dsus4    Cadd9    G
Into the high vaulted beams of governance

G       Em                  Dsus4    Cadd9   G
Yeah I’m wading through the treacle

G    Em        Dsus4    Cadd9   G
Using my incoherence as evidence
[Chorus]
G      Em             C      G
Can this voice carry seeds

G     Em         C               D       G
Can I seal this heart when the creature feeds

     Cadd9           Em     Cadd9  G
Can this voice carry seeds
[Verse 3]
G                               Cadd9
Meanwhile deception weaves its spell and

           G              Em7   C G Em
Who knows where who knows when

Em            Cadd9    G
Let’s start again

G           G   Cadd9              Em   C  G
Who knows where         who knows when
Sew ! …
G    Em                Dsus4     Cadd9
It’s a day like any other

        G           Em7           Cadd9        G
For the breakers of rocks and the pickers of locks

         G                Dsus4
For the spenders and the lenders

        Em7         Cadd9
And the grim-faced descenders

        Em7            Cadd9  G
And the riders of aftershocks

G        Em               Dsus4    Cadd9   G
Well I’m singing for the pharaoh

G       Em         Dsus4        Cadd9   G
But my spirit has taken to the hills

   G                 Dsus4
Where the gulls are white

       Cadd9      Em
And the sky is bright

        Cadd9        Dsus4
And the plough has reopened

     Cadd9        G
The field’s red gills
[Break]
           G              Em7   C G Em
Who knows where who knows when

Em            Cadd9    G
Let’s start again

           G              Em7   C G Em
Who knows where who knows when

Em            Cadd9    G
Let’s start again

           G              Em7   C G Em
Who knows where who knows when

Em            Cadd9    G
Let’s start again
[Chorus]
G      Em             C      G
Can this voice carry seeds

G     Em         C               D       G
Can I seal this heart when the creature feeds

G      Em             C      G
Can this voice carry seeds

G     Em         C               D       G
Can I seal this heart when the creature feeds