Joanna Newsom – Soft As Chalk (Guitar)

D      C
So, so long ago

G            D
And so far away

D        C
When time was just a line

           G
That you fed me

                  D
When you wanted to stay

D             C
We'd talk as soft as chalk

       G                      D
Till morning came, as pale as a pearl

D          C
No time, no, no time

       G                         D
Now, I have got all the time in the world

D                Bb
Say, honey, did you belong to me

 Eb                      Dm                   F
Tell me, honey, was your heart at rest when, darling

                 C
All the mourning doves were howling us

  Bb                    Dm           C      Dm F  Dm
A song of love's oh god-awful lawlessness, law-less-ness!

D               Bb
Say, honey, did you belong to me

Eb                    Dm
Tell me, honey, did I pass your test

    F                         C
I lay, as still as death, until the dawn

            Bb                     Dm           C
Whereupon I wrested from your god-awful lawlessness,

Dm  F    Dm
Law-less-ness!

  D                 C
I roam around the tidy grounds

         G           D
Of my dappled sanatorium

D                           C
Coatless, I sit amongst the motes, adrift

       G                  D
And I dote upon my pinesap gum

        D                           C
And the light, through the pines in brassy tines

     G               D
Lays over me, dim as rum

      D                    C
And thick as molasses, and so time passes

    G                      D
And so, my heart, tomorrow comes

D
I feel you, leaning

     Bb
Out back with the crickets

      Eb                Dm
Loyal heart marking the soon-ness darkness

 F                         C
Tonight, still the mourning doves

                     Bb
Will summon us their song

               Dm             C      Dm  F  Dm
Of love's neverdoneing lawlessness, law-less-ness!

       D
While, over and over

     Bb
Rear up, stand down, lay round

  Eb                      Dm
Trying to sound-out or guess the reasons

   F                     C
To sleep like a soldier, without rest

                   Bb
But there is no treason

               Dm          C     Dm F   Dm
Where there is only lawlessness, law-less-ness!

Dm  Bb  Gm  C
faster

       Eb
In the last week

                  Gm
Of the last year I was aware

            Db
I took a blind shot, across the creek

       Ab
At the black bear

          Eb
When he roused me in the night

            Db
And left me cowering with my light

 Ab      Fm
Who is there

      Cm
Who's there

       Eb
Who is there

   Eb
I watched you sleep

 Gm
Repeating my prayer

 Db
Give love a little shove

          Ab
And it becomes terror

             Eb
And now I am calling

           Db
And beyond fear

Ab     Fm
Who is there

      Cm
Who's there

      Eb
Who is there

 D
I glare and nod

         C
Like the character, God

        G                        D
Bearing down upon the houses and lawns

   D
I knew a little bit,

      C
But, darling, you were it

       G                          D
And, darling, now it is long gone

D                   C
Sweetheart, in your clean, bright start

G                                D
Back there, behind a hill, and a dell

       D                        C
And a state line or two, I'll be thinking of you

              G                         D
Yes, I’ll be thinking and be wishing you well

 D             C                 G                 D
We land, I stand, but I wait for the sound of the bell

D          C                   G             D
I have to catch a cab and my bags are at the carousel

     D             C                  D
And then Lord, just then, time alone will only tell