Indigo Girls – When We Were Writers (Guitar)

D                                Em
  Look a gift horse in the mouth   go get a job

A                                 G
  Last best deal I ever got was a quarter for a beer on the quad

D                                       Em
  Nevilles singing on a makeshift stage   you sittin' on a towel in the shade

A                                  G
  Came from a foreign town and you smoked a joint with Jackson Browne

D          D/C#         G/B   D/A
What if my pain won’t deliver me

           E      G               A
What if my stasis crushes me with boredom

     D         D/C#             G/B          D/A
If I read into   everything you say to me

       Em            D/F#            G                   A
I will never get the meaning of your words like when you wrote them

D            Em      D/F#         C
When we were writers when we were fighters

  G                         A
Before we found purpose and made deals with God

      D           Em           D/F#        C
Let’s pull an all nighter push wood in the fire

   G                                A
It might just look like smoke in my eyes but I’m still burning in - [Interlude] side

D                             Em
  Some sailed the calmer seas   serial monogamy

A                                  G
  Best trip I ever took was on the ship that I wrecked and how I got set free

D                                 Em
  Strange boy in the Vegas summer Dancing by the pool to a different drummer

A                     G
  Maybe a heat mirage   or a message in camouflage

D         D/C#             G/B
What if I thought that the best of me

D/A         E    G          A
Spending my days doing just fine

   D               D/C#      G/B          D/A
To short change my true full capacity

    Em           D/F#            G              A
And recognize it just when I was running out of time

D            Em      D/F#      C
When we were writers we were igniters

G                     A
Blisters to callus to scars from the war

    D             Em          D/F#         C
The sentence gets tighter the impact grows wider

     G                     A
When nothing is wasted nor chances denied

            Em         D/F#
I’ve had my day in the sun that’s no lie

G               A
  But I’m still burning inside

F                       G
  The slings and arrows   the passage narrows

C                         Fm
  The story harrowing the word becomes flesh

D                        Gm
  Wrestle the beast that leaves you diminished

     Em               D/F#     G           A
It’s alright you will never be finished

D             Em     D/F#          C
When you’re a writer when you’re a fighter

G                A
Easy to be cruel better to be kind

D                Em             D/F#           C
Plow through the stalks of your heart’s tinder box

G                            A
Flint to the rock and you’ll find you’re still burning in - [Outro] side