Joanna Newsom – Time As A Symptom (Guitar)

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[Verse 1]
F            Eb      Gm
Time passed hard

             F               Eb          
And the task was the hardest thing she'd ever do

F          Eb   
But she forgot

    Gm         F   Eb  
The moment she saw you

Gm               F         Eb     
So it would seem to be true:

       Gm            F         Eb
When cruel birth debases, we forget

       Gm            F      
When cruel death debases

   Eb                Gm      F
We believe it erases all the rest

        Eb
That precedes
[Verse 2]
Gm          F           Eb
But stand brave, life-liver

 Gm            F
Bleeding out your days

        Eb       Gm  F
In the river of time

        Eb
Stand brave:

Gm   F          Eb
Time moves both ways
[Chorus]
       Gm          F          Eb
In the nullifying, defeating, negating, repeating

Gm F   Eb
Joy of life;

    Gm          F          Eb
The nullifying, defeating, negating, repeating

Gm F   Eb
Joy of life
[Bridge]
      F                            Eb       
The moment of your greatest joy sustains:

    Gm
Not axe nor hammer

F
Tumor, tremor

     Eb                   Gm F Eb
Can take it away, and it remains

   Gm F Eb
It remains

       Gm    F     Eb         Gm F Eb
And it pains me to say, I was wrong

Gm           F       Eb
Love is not a symptom of time

Gm           F            Eb
Time is just a symptom of love
[Chorus]
         Gm          F          Eb        
(and the nullifying, defeating, negating, repeating

Gm F   Eb
Joy of life;

    Gm          F          Eb         
The nullifying, defeating, negating, repeating

Gm F   Eb
Joy of life)
[Coda]
        Eb          Gm
Hardly seen, hardly felt

                     F 
Deep down where your fight is waiting

Eb
Down 'till the light in your eyes is fading:

Gm F   Eb
Joy of life

        Gm                               F
Where I know that you can yield, when it comes down to it;

Eb                                       
Bow like the field when the wind combs through it:

Gm F   Eb
Joy of life

     Gm                      F
And every little gust that chances through

       Eb
Will dance in the dust of me and you

     Gm F     Eb
With joy-of-life

    Gm             F
And in our perfect secret-keeping:

 Eb
One ear of corn
In silent, reaping
Gm F     Eb
Joy of life

      Gm     F       Eb
Joy! Again, around a pause, a sound, a song:

   Gm    F      Eb            
A way a lone a last a loved a long

   Gm       F          Eb            
A cave, a grave, a day: arise, ascend

  Gm        F        Eb
(Areion, Rharian, go free and graze. Amen.)

Gm         F        Eb         
A shore, a tide, unmoored a sight, abroad:

   Gm     F          Eb          
A dawn, unmarked, undone, undarked (a god)

       Gm          F            Eb
No time. No flock. No chime, no clock. No end

      Gm              F         Eb      
White star, white ship, Nightjar, transmit: transcend!

       Gm           F         Eb       
White star, white ship, Nightjar, transmit: transcend!

       Gm           F         Eb       
White star, white ship, Nightjar, transmit: transcend!

       Gm           F         Eb          
White star, white ship, Nightjar, transmit: trans-