Joanna Newsom – This Side Of The Blue (Guitar)

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[Intro] D [Verse 1]
D
Svetlana sucks lemons across from me

    D                  G     A
And I am progressing abominably

    A         G                      D
And I do not know my own way to the sea

         D       G             A          D
But the saltiest sea knows its own way to me
[Verse 2]
        D
And the city that turns, turns protracted and slow

        D                     G      A
And I find myself toeing th'Embarcadero

        A         G
And I find myself knowing

                  D
The things that I knew

          D                G
Which is all that you can know

        A           D
On this side of the blue
[Verse 3]
    D
And Jaime has eyes black and shiny as boots

           D                        G         A
And they march at you two-by-two, (Re-loo re-loo);

          A
When she looks at you

G                           D
You know she's nowhere near through:

         D             G
It's the kindest heart beating

     A           D
This side of the blue
[Interlude] Em G C F D Em7 G C F Bm D G A D [Verse 4]
        D
And the signifieds butt heads with the signifiers

       D
And we all fall down slack-jawed

   G         A
To marvel at words!

      A              G                    D
When across the sky sheet the Impossible birds

     D         G        A             D
In a steady illiterate movement homewards
[Verse 5]
    D
And Gabriel stands beneath forest and moon

         D
See them rattle & boo

         G                  A
See them shake and see them loom

         A         G                     D
See him fashion a cap from a page of Camus;

        D        G           A           D
See him navigate deftly this side of the blue
[Interlude] Em G C F D Em7 G C F Bm D G A D [Verse 6]
        D
And the rest of our lives

         D
Will the moments accrue

         D
When the shape of their goneness

     G         A
Will flare up anew

        A          G                      D
Then we do what we have to do, (Re-loo re-loo)

         D                G
Which is all that you can do

        A           Bm
On this side of the blue
[Outro]
        D                G
Oh it's all that you can do

        A           D
On this side of the blue