Joanna Newsom – Sawdust And Diamonds (Guitar)
Capo 3
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Chords
[Verse 1]
C From the top of the flight Em C Of the wide white stairs Em C Through the rest of my life Em C Do you wait for me there? Em C There's a bell in my ears Em C There's the wide white roar Em C Drop a bell down the stairs Em C Hear it fall forever mor Em C Hear it fall forevermore
[Chorus]
G Em
G Em Drop a bell off of the dock G Em Blot it out in the sea G Em Drowning mute as a rock G Em sounding mutiny G There's a light in the wings, hits this system of strings, Em from the side while they swing;
See the wires, the wires, the wires.
[Verse]
G And the articulation in our elbows and knees Em Makes us buckle and we couple in endless increase
As the audience admires
G
And the little white doveMade with love, made with love
Em Made with glue and a glove and some pliers G Swings a low sickle arc from its perch in the dark Em Settle down, settle down my desire
[Chorus]
D And the moment I slept C G I was swept up in a terrible tremor D C Though no longer bereft, how I shook Em And i couldn't remember D And then the furthermost shake Am Drove a murdering stake in C Em G And cleft me right down through my center D And I shouldn't say so C Em But I know that it was then or never G Em Push me back into a tree G Em Bind my buttons with salt G Em Fill my long ears with bees G Braying 'please, please, please, Em Oh you ought not!
No you ought not!'
G And then the system of strings tugs on the tip of my wings Em Cut from cardboard and old magazines
Makes me warble and rise like a sparrow.
G
And in the place where I stoodThere is a circle of wood
Em A quarter to which you chop and you stack in your barrow G And it is terribly good
To carry water and chop wood
Em Streaked with soot, heavy booted and wild-eyed G As I crash through the rafters
And the ropes and the pulleys trail after
Em
And the holiest, holiest belfry burns sky high[Verse]
D And then a slow lip of fire C G Moves across the prairie with precision C While somewhere with your pliers and glue Em You make your first incision D A And in a moment of almost unbearable vision C Em G Doubled over with the hunger of lions D 'Hold me close', cooed the dove C Em Who was stuffed now with sawdust and diamonds
[Chorus]
Em D G
A C G I wanted to say 'why the long face?' A C G Sparrow perch and play songs of long face A C G Burro buck and bray songs of long face Am C Sings 'i will swallow your sadness and eat your cold clay G Just to lift your long face A C And though it may be madness, I will take to the grave G Your precious long face A C & though our bones they may break & our souls separate G Why the long face? A C And though our bodies recoil from the grip of the soil G Why the long face?
[Bridge]
G Em In the trough of the waves G Em Which are pawing like dogs G Em Pitch we, pale-faced and grave G Em As I write in my log. G Em Then I hear a noise from the hull G Em Seven days out to sea G Em And it is the damnable bell G And it tolls, I believe, that it tolls Em It tolls for me!
And it tolls for me!
G
And though my wrists and my waistSeem so easy to break
Em Still my dear I would've walked you to the edge of the water G And they will recognize all the lines of your face Em In the face of the daughter, of the daughter, of my daughter G And darling we will be fine
But what was yours and mine
Em Appears to be a sandcastle that the gibbering wave takes G But if it's all just the same
Then say my name, say my name,
Em
in the morning so that i know when the wave breaks[Chorus]
D I wasn't born of a whistle C G Or milked from a thistle at twilight D No, i was all horns and thorns C Em Sprung out fully formed, knock-kneed and upright D A So enough of this terror we deserve to know light C Em G And grow evermore lighter and lighter D You would have seen me through C Em But I could not undo that desire
[Coda]
D C Em Oh-oh, oh-oh-oh desire D C Em Oh-oh, oh-oh-oh desire D C Em Oh-oh, oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh desire Em C From the top of the flight Em C Of the wide white stairs Em C Through the rest of my life Em C Do you wait for me there?